NHL Stanley Cup Final Game Night: 9-27-20 Stars v Lightning
Lightning see a chance to get the trophy momentarily slip through their fingers.
DAL-3
TB-2 (2OT)
Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed 3 goals on 33 shots for the loss. Tough way to lose as he saw very little action most of Overtime and then was left to fend for himself to try to stop two rebound chances one on one in front with Perry.
First Period
17:52 DAL Perry (4), (Seguin, Oleksiak)
Second Period
4:37 TB Palat (11), (Kucherov, Point)
Third Period
3:38 TB Sergachev (3), (Point)
13:15 DAL Pavelski (13), (Heiskanen, Seguin)
Overtime
NO SCORING
Double Overtime
9:23 DAL Perry (5), (Klingberg)
Brayden Point was the game's third star.
Weird game. Just a weird, weird game. The Lightning had the puck for most of the contest and were first on loose pucks most of the contest but Dallas' defensive zone coverage held up under the pressure and didn't surrender a lot of high quality chances. And, Dallas being Dallas, they were opportunistically looking to poach counters and get greasy goals off rebounds and tips in front. The eyeball test says Tampa Bay deserved to win that game but the fancy stats reveal they just weren't able to work themselves into enough quality chances to unlock the winner. Still, frustrating to see they had a Third Period lead and couldn't make it stick.
Dallas looks dead on their feet, but so did the Isles after G5 and it ended up being the Lightning who looked like skating zombies in G6 of that series, so we'll have to see what the next contest has for the Lightning. They're clearly the better team in this series, but now that you're down to one or two games left to go in the season, chance and luck play a more outsized role.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.