TAMPA - The hour is dark for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Heading into Thursday, for the first time since 2015, the Lightning face elimination in Game 6 of a postseason series. Of all the playoff scenarios that Tampa Bay has encountered since Jon Cooper took over behind the bench, this is the one they have faced the fewest amount of times.
It happened twice in that 2015 postseason run, in the opening round to Detroit and the Stanley Cup Final against Chicago. The Lightning won Game 6 in Detroit against the Red Wings before winning Game 7 back home while they dropped Game 6 in Chicago and watched t...
