Martin St. Louis and Teddy Purcell each marked twice, resilient goalie Dwayne Roloson, that survived a by Boston David Krejci hat-trick, and the Tampa Bay Lightning stayed alive in the Conference finals with a 5-4 win on the Boston Bruins in game 6 isWednesday night.
Game 7 is Friday night in Boston. The Bruins are seeking their first trip to the final of the Stanley Cup in 21 years, and the lightning will attempt to win their first appearance on stage of hockey, since they won their only NHL championship in 2004.
The West Vancouver Canucks Conference champion await the winner in the final.
St. Louis also assisted on a goal in the third period as the lightning up 4-2. His second goal - and NHL-leading 10th of the playoffs - restored lead to two goals for Tampa Bay after from Boston in 4-3 on a two goal Krejci to keep the Bruins within striking distance in the minutes of the fence.
Roloson, who has not played in the fifth game after firing two of the previous three games because of the inefficiency, also gave up a pair of goals in the first period and ended with 16 cases.
Boston Tim Thomas waived another goal at the start, and then lutté after Krejci and Milan Lucic marked to give the Bruins a 2-1 with a single period advance.
The lightning took control when St. Louis, Purcell and Steven Stamkos: goals power play in a time of 12 minutes of the second and third periods.
Roloson improved to 7-0 in the games of elimination throughout his career, including 4-0 this postseason. Lightning rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat Pittsburgh in the first round, with their old guard of 41 whitening the Pittsburgh Penguins in game 7 on the road.
Tampa Bay Guy Boucher coach donna backup goalie Mike Smith his first career playoff start, Monday night saying: he felt Roloson - including mid-season acquisition was one of the keys to Tampa Bay becoming a competitor - needed a packaging "with" after the start of the first 15 playoff of lightning.
Smith stopped 17 of 19 shots in the loss of the fifth game however, Boucher did not hesitate to return to Roloson with lightning to elimination.
"Personally, I don't like the word despair." ... For me, it's just another game, "Roloson said following lightning Skate Wednesday morning." "You need to focus on your work."
Coach of Boston that Claude Julien said his team will play its best game of the series to get and the Bruins had certainly to have doubts about how the night could go when Vincent Lecavalier won a commitment in the right circle and Purcell scored the Tampa Bay opening shot.
Lucic countered for Boston less than seven minutes later with a shot of the location which exceeded Roloson of the wrist. Third goal of the Krejci of the series, after taking a nice pass setbacks of as well as advice from Daniel Paille, gives the Bruins ahead by 2-1 with 3: 30 remaining in the first period.
But an inability to take advantage of three power mopped plus-pièces Boston in the second period when Tampa Bay, who had no part in man-advantage since game 2 situations, converted three in 12 minutes to regain the lead for good.
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