{"id":679905,"date":"2017-06-15T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=679905"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:27:19","slug":"tampa-bay-lightnings-2015-stanley-cup-final-memories-endure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tampa-bay-lightnings-2015-stanley-cup-final-memories-endure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2015 Stanley Cup Final Memories Endure"},"content":{"rendered":"
We all get those Facebook notifications. The ones inviting us to take a look back at what happened on this day in years gone by. Sometimes it\u2019s fun things like silly pictures with friends or reminders of vacations you enjoyed. For the last two months, these memories have been filled with moments from Lightning postseasons past. As the days go by it has brought us to the anniversary of something that still stings more than a little: Game 6 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n In the past two months, it\u2019s been fun to relive the triumphs over the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, and New York Rangers. Remember the huge ECF Game 7 win at Madison Square Garden? Legendary. It felt like the Lightning had been touched by fate once again. The young team with so much talent and promise was taking the hockey world by storm and wouldn\u2019t be denied. Even as they struggled in the SCF there was still optimism. The team had faced so much adversity and overcome it. Nothing seemed impossible.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, that wasn\u2019t entirely true. Losing goalie\u00a0Ben Bishop<\/a> early in the series was a huge blow. Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> showed flashes of the brilliance that would earn him the starting goaltender\u2019s job but there\u2019s a heck of a learning curve when so much is at stake. The prolific scoring that carried them all that year suddenly sputtered. The injuries proved to be too much to play through effectively. Not every year is going to be the year but getting that close and falling short was incredibly painful.<\/p>\n