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Sports: Flame-Resistant To The End: “Would this ever end? The shots kept coming, the clock kept ticking, and breaths kept getting shorter and shorter as the Lightning tried to protect a one- goal lead and win the Stanley Cup. ”

Sports: Yahoo! Sports - NHL - Lightning 3, Flames 2, 2OT: “Maybe it was the phone call from Ray Bourque, maybe it was their coach’s psychological ploy to tilt the pressure Calgary’s way.
Whatever it was, the Tampa Bay Lightning have forced Game 7 in a Stanley Cup finals that much of Calgary — and Canada, too — must have thought was over. ”

Sports: Playoff Hockey Gets Hairy: ““I’m pretty sure we started that because the Canadiens won the four Cups before that and [Canadiens President Sam Pollock] had a rule that [prohibited] their players from wearing beards,” former Islanders assistant general manager Jim Devellano said. “We didn’t care if they wore a beard or wore their hair down to their [rear ends]. So we had a bunch of guys with beards.”
So do the Tampa Bay Lightning. Of the 25 players on their roster, 18 are sporting beards of one kind or another. Most say they began growing them when the playoffs started and will shave them once the playoffs finish, which could be tonight with the Lightning down 3-2 to the Calgary Flames in the best-of-seven series. ”