TAMPA - The Tampa Bay Lightning needed something - anything - to go their way in a return to home ice.
In the midst of a five-game winless streak, the longest in nine years, the Lightning looked like a team without an identity. They looked defeated before stepping on the ice and lacked any sort of confidence having been outscored 27-11 in the previous five games.
Enter the Philadelphia Flyers, an elixir for one night.
And the Lightning needed this dose of medicine.Over the span of the past five games, the Lightning have given up goals at an alarming rate that triggered all sorts of red flags. ...
