Coors Light is celebrating the Tampa Bay Lightning’s back-to-back championships in a unique way.
After the Bolts’ eliminated the Canadiens in Game Five, the beermaker announced that it had scraped and collected the ice from Amalie Arena during the Stanley Cup Final and was turning it into beer. It’s being hailed as “the first beer made with hockey’s championship ice.”
Nikita Kucherov had a memorable press conference after winning the Stanley Cup for the second straight year.
The 2019 Hart Trophy winner, sans his championship shirt, arrived clutching a can of Bud Light. After taking a question from The Athletic’s Joe Smith, Kucherov freelanced on his response, ribbing Montreal Canadiens fans for how they celebrated their Game Four overtime victory — their only win of the Stanley Cup Final — and criticizing voters of the Vezina Trophy for snubbing Andrei Vasilevskiy two consecutive seasons.
Tampa Bay won 1-0 in Game Five to take the series four games to one.
The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Montreal Canadiens in Game Five 1-0 on Wednesday, becoming the first team to win the Stanley Cup in back-to-back years since the 2016-2017 Pittsburgh Penguins.
The victory gives former Capitals captain Jeff Halpern a new distinction; he’s now a two-time Stanley Cup champion.
This is your open thread to discuss Game Five of the Stanley Cup Final between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens.
The Lightning are looking to close the series out again after falling in overtime to the Habs in Game Four. Tampa is trying to become the ninth team in NHL history to repeat as champions and the first since the 2016 and 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins.
This is your open thread to discuss Game Four of the Stanley Cup Final between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens.
The Lightning are going for the sweep tonight and trying to be the first team to repeat since the 2016 and 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins.
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The Lightning have a 2-0 lead in the series.
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The defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning are returning to the Finals after defeating the New York Islanders in Game Seven on Friday, 1-0. Yanni Gourde scored a shorthanded goal in the second period to punch Tampa’s ticket to the championship series once again.
The Lightning will meet a surprisingly good Montreal Canadiens team, who is making its first appearance in the Stanley Cup Final since 1993.
The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated their Stanley Cup championship with a boat parade and rally on Wednesday. While the team set precautions ahead of time due to the coronavirus pandemic, players, family members, and fans got sloppy during their interactions with the Cup, possibly endangering the lives of others.
TSN’s Darren Dreger is reporting that the Lightning has drawn the ire of the National Hockey League after the Bolts went viral for the wrong reasons.
