“I love the way our team has responded in the playoffs after losses, but you can’t hang your hat on that and say, ‘Well, we haven’t lost the last two years after a loss, or we won every game after a loss in the last two years, so we’re going to win,’ ” Cooper said Thursday morning before the Lightning flew home to Tampa, Florida.
“You can plug your players with cliches and pump them up all these different ways, but for our group, who has been down this road before, I’m so confident in just the way that they prepare, the way they play, their battle for each other.
“After the game ended last night we were past it, we were over it, we were looking forward to Game 7,” he said.
Goodrow was in this exact situation two years ago with the San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference Second Round.
“When it comes down to Game 7, one game, winner take all, it’s about being on top of things, all the details, everything like that.
They were going home for Game 7, a second opportunity to win the series and advance to the Stanley Cup Final staring them in the face.
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