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Apr 18, 2023 at 10:24 PM ETOnce the puck dropped, however, one team was confident in its battle-tested, championship pedigree.The Tampa Bay Lightning built a 3-0 lead in the first period and survived a brief scare on the way to humiliating the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-3 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Tuesday.As they should be.
"They stepped up their level and we didn't quite do that," Matthews said."It's pretty simple: a bad start and then a lot of penalty trouble." "You want to come out with energy," said O'Reilly, a Cup winner with St. Louis in 2019."We were just kind of dipping our toes in." Toronto, which beat Tampa 5-0 in Game 1 in the same building last spring, started to push back, but the visitors went up three with just 2.6 seconds remaining in the period on a power play when a Kucherov one-timer beat Samsonov.
"Those that are borderline, more likely than not are probably gonna go their way," Tavares said."They've been in finals three times in a row. We have to be just extremely disciplined."
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