A look at Tampa Bay's Playoff Run
By the numbers
- Defeated the only two teams with more points then them in the regular season. Boston Bruins (124 points) and Ottawa Senators (120 points).
- Tampa has been a better road team this playoffs with a record of 8-3-0. While playing under .500 hockey at home with a record of 4-5-0. This could be a deciding factor in the finals as they will have home ice advantage over the Stars or Predators.
- Tampa Bay is 0-3 in game 1's this playoffs. They will need to change that in the BRHL finals.
- Tampa Bay is an incredible 5-0 when on the brink of elimination this playoffs, going 3-0 against Boston and 2-0 against Ottawa.
- Tampa Bay is the highest scoring playoff team currently with 65 goals scored.
- They have been streaky thus far, on three occasions they have won atleast 3 in a row (4 in a row against the Islanders).
- Tampa Bay is 1-2 when games go to Overtime.
- Tampa is 3-0 in game 5's in this playoffs. This was typically when their streaks have started to close out a series.
- Mike Smith has been one of the more active backup goaltenders in this seasons playoffs, proving the two goalie tandem to be important. Jonathan Quick has started 14 games while Mike Smith has started 6. Smith has been the winning goalie twice now to close out a series.
- Tampa Bay has scored the first goal in a game 11 of 20 times this post-season, the interesting stat here is Tampa Bay has scored the first goal in all 6 games versus the Islanders. Without the Islanders series, Tampa Bay has been playing from behind in 9 of 14 games (against Boston and Ottawa).
- Despite playing from behind, the Lightning have been a strong first period team, leading all playoff teams with 35 first period goals, with only 16 scored in the second period and a weak 13 goals scored in the third period.
- The Lightning's power play tops the remaining four teams in the Conference Finals, with a success rate of 22.03%. Their Penalty Kill has been a weak 83.87% though.
- Anze Kopitar has carried a lot of the workload this playoffs, leading playoff scoring with 26 points. Second on the team in scoring is linemate Jakub Voracek with 19 points.
