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(AP) — The arena was largely empty, but the shouts of joy from the bench suggested the triumph of winning the Stanley Cup in a bubble was no less sweet for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal, and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0, capping off an NHL playoff staged in quarantine during the pandemic.
The clock hitting zeros set off a wild celebration for a group that endured years of playoff heartbreak and two months in isolation. Goals from Point and Blake Coleman and a 22-save shutout by Andrei Vasilevskiy were enough to power the Lightning to their second championship in franchise history.
