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Lightning Dominate Their Way To Second Straight Stanley Cup Championship 

For the second time in 10 months, the Tampa Bay Lightning are Stanley Cup champions. 안전놀이터

The Lightning crushed the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 on Wednesday to finish off the Stanley Cup Finals in five games. The title is the Lightning's third since their establishing in 1992 and their subsequent straight, joining the 2016-17 Pittsburgh Penguins as the lone heroes to return to-back this century. 

Despite the fact that the Lightning rehashed, it's anything but a player who wasn't with them at all last season who gave the series-winning objective. Newbie Ross Colton, playing in his 53rd vocation game following two years in the AHL, diverted a pass from David Savard to track down the rear of the net: 

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Ryan McDonagh gave the optional help. The objective was Colton's fourth of the postseason and his first since the second round. 

Lightning goaltender Andre Vasilevskiy enlisted a shutout on 22 shots, proceeding with an amazing dash of five straight shutouts in an end game. It was likewise his fifteenth consecutive dominate in a match following a misfortune. 

The entirety of that additional up to a Conn Smythe Trophy for the 26-year-old netminder, the primary goalie to win the honor since Jonathan Quick in 2012. That will assuage a Vezina reprimand. 

A crowning ritual for the Lightning 

Outside of the Canadiens' visit of execution in Game 4, the Lightning ruled all series. They won the initial three games by a joined nine objectives, and just lost Game 4 in additional time in the wake of outshooting Montreal 34-21. 

It was business as usual in Game 5, with the Lightning outshooting the Canadiens 30-22 and holding benefits in Corsi, Fenwick and anticipated objectives, through Natural Stat Trick. 

That is a presentation so many expect, yet scarcely any see from a defending champion that solitary lost six games in last year's end of the season games. The Lightning were the reasonable best group in the air pocket, then, at that point got back to the end of the season games this season as the No. 3 group in the Central Division. Their greatest test came in the past round, when the New York Islanders pushed them to seven games. 

Canada's Stanley Cup dry season proceeds 

Indeed, even in a season finisher structure nearly intended to do as well as can possibly be expected at a title in years, the Canadiens missing the mark implies one of the more inquisitive dry spells in sports will proceed. 

It has now been a long time since the Canadiens raised the Stanley Cup in 1993, and no Canadian group has won a title since. The Canadiens had been the primary group from north of the line in 10 years to arrive at the Finals by any stretch of the imagination. 

The current year's end of the season games had been especially Canada-accommodating because of the brief establishment of the Canada division, with the nation's best four groups playing each other in the first and second adjusts to promise one of the period's last four groups would make it to the elimination rounds. 

The Canadiens arrived by means of a noteworthy rebound against the Toronto Maple Leafs in seven games and a scope of the Winnipeg Jets, then, at that point crushed the Vegas Golden Knights in six to book their first Finals since that 1993 title. They just couldn't take care of business. 

Lightning not the top pick one year from now 

In spite of the Lightning's great shooting, Vegas isn't wagering enthusiastic about a three-peat. BetMGM has the Lightning at +75-to win the following year's Stanley Cup, the association's third-best chances behind the Colorado Avalanche (+500) and Golden Knights (+650). 

The Canadiens come in seventh at +1800.