Four straight years, 4 first-round playoff exits. What's next for the Lightning?

TAMPA, Fla. — In a dressing room drenched in silence and populated by faces all expressing disbelief, the Tampa Bay Lightning hadn’t quite come to grips with it all.This year was supposed to be different. They were the bad boys, they were hungrier, they looked so damn good all year long.This was the season they would get back to their deep playoff run ways. It had to be. They felt it. They looked the part.Advertisement