DETROIT – Turns out in sports that all good things, in fact, do come to an end.
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, their five-year run of success against the Detroit Red Wings that spanned 20 games is over.
The Lightning fought like hell to keep the streak alive but wound up in a result that defied every other number that showed up on the stat sheet, normal or advanced.
Sometimes, that's hockey, particularly when: turnovers take place in the wrong areas of the ice, the goaltender can't come up with a big save, the other goaltender does, a challenge backfires and all of it colliding with the end of ...
