TAMPA - When the Tampa Bay Lightning left the ice following the opening game of the opening round series in Toronto and walked up the steps to the locker room, there were not any heads hanging down.
By the time each player stepped across the line doorway and into the room, the lopsided loss had all but been sanitized from their system. Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy was among the voices telling his teammates not get worked up over the loss.
Letting that type of a game slide off takes a certain type of mentality. The Lightning learned that lesson the hard way through the years, but once they di...
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