“We’ve talked zero about Tampa Bay, zero,” New York coach Barry Trotz said.
“I don’t think anybody has been sitting here thinking about revenge on Tampa , just trying to take it each game, each series one at a time.
“A big thing is experience,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.
“I thought we had a pretty good regular season where we were kind of building toward this.
“We’ve got a group of guys that have been together quite a while and we’ve added some key pieces, and when you get into these high intensity situations and guys just keep showing up for one another and it just builds a bond,” Bailey said.
“I just watched them close out Carolina, that’s a good hockey team right now and a very dangerous power play, obviously,” Trotz said.
Vasilevskiy was 1-1-0 with a 2.54 GAA and an .884 save percentage, and Curtis McElhinney allowed five goals on 24 shots in a 5-1 loss Dec.
“It’s a great opportunity for us seeing them again in the semifinals,” Beauvillier said.
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