Rangers-Lightning combine for 11 goals, Stamkos is just fine, Babcock to Toronto, and Blackhawks-Ducks Game 3. 

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Game 3 between the Lightning and the Rangers was one of the most entertaining yet these playoffs. Sometimes games are entertaining because they are goalie duels. Sometimes it's for the physical nature. This game had two blown two-goal leads, a tie game broken by Tampa Bay with just under six minutes left, and the game tied by New York with under two minutes left. Sometimes the track meet games where no lead is safe is pretty darn entertaining too. It should go without saying that it wasn’t a banner night for either goaltender, though the goals seemed more a function of the skill of the skaters than their poor play. That’s an important distinction before labelling this one a clunker for both goalies. 

Tampa Bay's top scoring line of Tyler Johnson Nikita Kucherov, and Ondrej Palat accounted for four of the six Tampa Bay goals, with Kucherov scoring the overtime winner. Kucherov just coasted to the middle on a rush and snapped a shot just inside the far post to give the Lightning a 2-1 series lead with a 6-5 overtime win.

With a two point effort last night, Steven Stamkos now has 11 points in his last nine playoff games going back to the start of the Montreal series. For whatever reason he struggled against Detroit, he most certainly has not since that series. With the Tyler Johnson line doing so well, it's almost got lost in the shuffle that Stamkos is back to being Stamkos.