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Come Fan with UsTuesday, June 23, 2026

This rocket of a shot from the Lightning is the first goal of the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs

It took less than seven minutes into the game for us to get our first score of the postseason.

Steven Stamkos who? The Lightning might not need their biggest names if they can shoot rockets like these for the rest of the playoffs.

Nikita Kucherov got the honor of having the first goal of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and what a shot it was.

That type of east-west movement is exactly what the Lightning will need in the playoffs. Tampa Bay is fast, and when they get their legs going they get deadly. Just ask Jimmy Howard how it felt to have that blast whiz by his face.

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