What’s Wrong With the Tampa Bay Lightning?

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The Tampa Bay Lightning, the team that owns two Stanley Cups and three consecutive trips to the Final, is a struggling hockey team today.

They lost 6-0 to the Carolina Hurricanes Sunday for their fifth consecutive loss. The Lightning had no shots on goal in the second period. They gave up a season-high five power play goals.

The Lightning have given up 27 goals during the losing streak. This is the franchise’s longest losing streak in nine years.

To make the situation more stressful, Tampa Bay’s No. 1 defenseman Victor Hedman left the game in the second period with an injury. He will be evaluated today in Tampa.

The day before, the Lightning lost 5-3 to the Buffalo Sabres and the line of Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov was benched for the entire third period.

This didn’t  happen overnight. Tampa Bay has given up an uncharacteristic 3.08 goals per game this season. That ranks 15th in the NHL. That’s not how they have found success in recent years.

Since February 15, they’ve lost eight of 10 games. The Lightning have given up four or more goals in seven of those games.

👑 Jonathan Quick makes 25 saves to secure 4-3 win over the Canadiens in Golden Knights debut. The 2012 Conn Smythe winner was perfect through his first two periods before surrendering 3 goals early in the third. But the veteran netminder shut the door down the stretch, including a sprawling save to stop a Jonathan Drouin one-timer with 19 seconds left, to preserve the 4-3 win. Recently acquired Ivan Barbashev scored his first and second goal as a Golden Knight as Vegas won its third straight and carries a 9-1-2 record since the All-Star break. 

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What player has won the most Conn Smythe trophies in NHL history with three? Hint: he's also the only player to win it as a member of two different teams.

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Patrick Roy holds the NHL's all-time record for most Conn Smythe trophies won with three: 1986 and 1993 as a member of the Montreal Canadiens, and 2001 with the Colorado Avalanche.