{"id":727,"date":"2022-06-21T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/?p=727"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T10:31:51","slug":"2022-stanley-cup-final-game-3-tampa-back-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/2022\/06\/21\/2022-stanley-cup-final-game-3-tampa-back-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Stanley Cup Final Game 3 Tampa Back In It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lightning ensured that the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals will go to at least 5 games with a comprehensive win in game 3.\u00a0 Tampa tends to play better at home and they looked like a different team in this one. They did have to survive an early scare going 1-0 down and relying on Vasilevskiy to pull off a crucial save.<\/p>\n<p>However, Anthony Cirelli got the Lightning back in it in the 13th minute. Then Ondrej Palat capitalised on a giveaway to give Tampa their first lead of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado briefly got back into the game in the second period pulling it back to 3-2 but three more 2nd-period goals soon put a stop to any hopes of a comeback. Both of The Avalanche&#8217;s goals came on power play opportunities and they will be slightly concerned that they were so soundly beaten despite having more takeaways.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa&#8217;s goals all came from different players and if they can win game four they will definitely feel like the momentum has changed.<\/p>\n<h3>Game Three\u00a0 Highlights Below<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmh7mq8Day0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the way to bounce back from a <a title=\"2022 Stanley Cup Final Game 2 Avalanche of Goals\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/2022\/06\/20\/2022-stanley-cup-final-avalanche-of-goals\/\">7-0 drubbing<\/a> and the Amalie Arena was bouncing with a completely sold-out with the attendance of 19,092. The fans were even treated to a free fight as you can see in the video above.<\/p>\n<h3>So what next?<\/h3>\n<p>The series is now at a pivotal stage. If Tampa manages to tie it up then we wouldn&#8217;t rule out this going to seven games. Ac win for Colorado would put them firmly in control with a home game coming up. Coming back from 3-1 down is not an easy feat and in fact, it has never been done in the Stanley Cup Final. Well not exactly as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1942_Stanley_Cup_Finals\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> did come back from 3-0 in 1942. That was also the first final to go to seven games. See we area fountain of trivial knowledge here.<\/p>\n<h3>Up Next<\/h3>\n<p>The series continues in Tampa on Wednesday, June 22 at 8 p.m. ET. That&#8217;s 1.00 am Thursday for us UK viewers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lightning ensured that the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals will go to at least 5 games with a comprehensive win in game 3.\u00a0 Tampa tends to play better at home and they looked like a different team in this one. They did have to survive an early scare going 1-0 down and relying on Vasilevskiy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,705,28],"tags":[706],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado-avalanche","category-stanley-cup","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-2022-stanley-cup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}