Falling short of the expectations once again, top seeded capitals have been swept from the NHL playoffs, Wednesday night, falling 5-3 at the Lightning seeded fifth game 4 of the Conference semifinals clash.
"It was a year difficult - we went through the valleys and peaks - but I just thought if we persevered that something good was about to happen,"Washington coach, said Bruce Boudreau. ".
"I thought also later when they made it 5-2, it will be difficult." But before even than I thought, ' OK, we will find a way. Guys want too, and they come back all year in dire straits. "I always thought that we were on Moor and win in overtime. ?
With chants of "sweep, scan, scanning" prey through the construction, the Lightning had other thoughts and kept pushing until Washington had more hope.
Sean Bergenheim scored two goals and Dwayne Roloson stopped 33 shots for Tampa Bay, which has extended its series of victories for seven games and qualify for the final of the Conference for the first time since the 2004 Stanley Cup championship season.
"We are really happy, but we're not popping champagne or anything," Lightning before Ryan Malone said. "We know what our objective and we must continue and be maintained." We not have done anything yet. ?
Rookie Michal Neuvirth stopped 32 shots for Washington, but Bergenheim scored twice in eight minutes in the second period to build a lead of 3-1 that sent the height of the 20,835 mode celebration long before it more.
"There is little you can say." They are low in landfills. I am in landfills, said Boudreau. "I just said I was proud of them for the way they worked throughout the year, and that they never quit right at the end.". It's just a coach could ask is if you do not quit and you keep only plugging through. I thought that we had a good chance to win and we did not only it. ?
The big three of Martin St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier and Steven Stamkos lightning have elevated their games in the playoffs, but has therefore Bergenheim, who was a leader of the team of seven goals through two rounds. Sixth objective St. Louis' of playoffs, with 3: 08 remaining, finished marking of Tampa Bay.
Malone and Marc - André Bergeron added goals for the lightning, who have not lost since the fall in a hole of 3-1 against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round.
Bergenheim was eighth on the lightning with 14 goals during the regular season, but he was much more of an offensive force to evict the penguins and lightning.
It is something coach Guy Boucher, with Tampa Bay in the Conference finals in his first season as coach of the NHL, has come to expect of the attacker.
"Every top game, every important game, each game that there is some pressure, he was in it." "It was one of our best players," said the butcher. "Some people freeze under pressure, some people fly away, and some people are fighting.". He fights. ?
Marco Sturm, John Erskine and John Carlson scored for the capitals. Ovechkin had a purpose of Sturm, but was unable to find the net with one of the five shots to the 41-year-old Roloson, a mid-season acquisition, which is one of the biggest reasons Tampa Bay is not only thep playoffs for the first time since 2007 but thriving.
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