At Tampa, Florida:
Nikita Kucherov had two goals (one an empty-netter) and an assist on Tuesday as the Tampa Bay Lightning dominated the visiting Montreal Canadiens 4-1 and won their Eastern Conference semifinal series four games to two. Ben Bishop saved 18 of 19 shots as the Lightning advanced to the Eastern Conference final, in which they will face the winner of the New York Rangers-Washington Capitals series (which would be decided on Wednesday at New York).
With the Canadiens' defeat, it will now have been 21 straight seasons (not counting 2005, in which there was no postseason due to the lockout) without a Canadian club winning the Stanley Cup (the last time a team from north of the border won Lord Stanley's Cup was when the Habs defeated Los Angeles in five games in 1993).
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