Part of what makes the Tampa Bay Lightning special is their ability to forget about a loss in the playoffs and rebound from it like it did not happen. In fact, according to Dan Rosen of NHL.com, the Bolts have not lost in nearly 20 of their last games following a defeat in a Stanley Cup Playoffs game. That sounds great for Lightning fans, and not so much for the New York Rangers, who pull off a surprising 6-2 win in Game 1 of the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals Wednesday night.

The Lightning have the best streak going in the NHL, and I'm not talking about their 10 straight playoff series wins. They are 17-0 in games following a loss since the start of the 2020 playoffs. They lost 6-2 tonight. Game 2 is Friday.

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In this year's edition of the Stanley Cup Playoffs alone, the Lightning have already gone 3-0 in games after suffering a loss. and all of those happened in the first round against the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the second round, Tampa Bay blasted the Presidents' Trophy-winning Florida Panthers in just four games, where it looked like the Lightning were going to dominate whichever between the Rangers and the Carolina Hurricanes in the conference finals round.

Instead, the Lightning got a wake-up call. The Rangers' offense exploded out of nowhere, humbling Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy. Then again, the Lightning also lost Game 1 in the Toronto series by a big margin, 5-0, and everyone knows what happened next.