TAMPA – No team, not even the best teams, play to their full potential every night.
When they don't, there is always another team on the other end aspiring to play to their full potential in the pursuit of two points that can make their mark, even when the team on the other side sits on the bottom of the standings.
A top team playing down to their potential and a bottom team playing up to theirs, well, you can get what happened on Friday as the Tampa Bay Lightning - the defending Stanley Cup champion - closed out a two-game set against the Detroit Red Wings - coming off the worst season of an...
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