Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Tampa Bay wins Stanley Cup
The Sharks will get you guys next year!
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Ruslan Fedotenko scored two goals as the Lightning won the Stanley Cup on Monday night, ending the championship dreams of the injury-battered Flames with a 2-1 victory in Game 7.
``Better is a tough word when you win by one goal in seven games,'' said Lightning centre Brad Richards , who was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
``It could have gone either way. Basically, we might have won one more battle, made one more big save. Obviously, we scored one more goal. But when two teams go to one goal in seven games, that's how it should be.''
The Lightning, with the first Cup win in their 12-year history, had to fight off a late Calgary charge before a sellout crowd of 22,717 at the St. Pete Times Forum.
Calgary's Craig Conroy scored at 9:21 of the final period, but the Lightning held on, barely, with Nikolai Khabibulin making some amazing saves - including an eye-popping stop on Jordan Leopold with the net wide open. Somehow, Khabibulin stuck out his pad to block the puck.
The Sharks will get you guys next year!
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