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Evan Closky

@ECloskyWTSP

10 Tampa Bay Sports Director | Emmy & Murrow award winner | Proud Buckeye | Long Island born & raised | All opinions are my own

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José Siri said after he reached first base Uribe brushed him on the shoulder.

Jose said he asked him why he did that and Uribe said “Because I felt like it.”

Then Uribe smacked him and Siri said, “then I defended myself.”

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Something like this could be a much-needed, galvanizing moment for a scuffling team

OR

It could accentuate some serious concerns at the underbelly of this April swoon

Tampa Bay will drive that narrative one of two ways after tonight.

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Through one month of the season, certain narratives about a team or player can be hyperbolic.

The Rays catching is not one of those narratives.

Teams will continue to run all over them until they have a better solution...

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The Tampa Bay Lightning season is over. I recap a controversial night from Sunrise and where the Bolts go from here.

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Signing off from Sunrise.

We can slice and dice a lot of little things in this series, but ultimately, I just think the Panthers were a better team. Feel like the Lightning consistently battled. The fought hard. Wasn’t enough this time.

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Here is a non-iPhone version of Jon Cooper's frustrations with the disallowed goals tonight.

'The boxing out that goes there it's like prison rules in the playoffs, but it's not prison rules for the goalie?... Might as well put skirts on them.'

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I asked Steven Stamkos about if he was thinking about his future as the clock was winding down?

He was not.

Jon Cooper said ultimately only Stamkos and BriseBois knows what is next on that front.

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Jon Cooper has a long explanation about the disallowed goals.

People will clip a byte, but you really should listen to the whole thing.

Needless to say he was not happy.

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Credit to Florida. This series has been the worst stretch of puck-handling I've seen from Nikita Kucherov.

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That’ll do it from Sunrise.

Bolts lost to a team that is simply better than them. Lots of little things did not go their way too that could have swung this series a bit, but ultimately, Florida is damn good.

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Video review confirmed Anthony Cirelli made incidental contact with goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky which impaired his ability to play his position prior to the goal.

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