the last time the lightning went to the stanley cup was 2013.
when was the last time the lightning went to the stanley cup?
2013
chicago set a record with eight american players winning the stanley cup. also set a record for attendance with 18,497 in game three. it was the second time in nhl history a team would win the stanley cup after starting three different goalies in the playoffs after the detroit red wings accomplish the feed the previous year, no stanley cup champions would win the cup while starting three different goalies until the penguins did it in 2016. it was the last time that the hawks would win the stanley cup at home until 2015, and the last that a chicago team would win a championship at chicago stadium until the bulls won their second straight nba championship in 1992. the next time the blackhawks would win the stanley cup at home would be in 2015, when they defeated the tampa bay lightning in game six of the 2015 stanley cup finals; by this time they had moved into the united center.
1938 stanley cup finals
the lightning beat the flames in the stanley cup finals, four games to three. with the flames having a 3–2 series lead and the series going back to calgary for game 6, with the stanley cup in the building and with the game tied 2–2 in the third, martin gelinas of the flames (who scored the series-winning goals in the flames' three previous series) appeared to have scored the go-ahead goal. gelinas redirected a pass towards the tampa net using his skate that was kicked out by lightning goaltender nikolai khabibulin. it appeared that before khabibulin kicked the puck out, it had already crossed the goal line. the play was not reviewed. to this day, many flames fans argue that the puck was in. the game eventually went into double overtime, where lightning winger and former flame martin st. louis scored the overtime winner. the lightning went on to win game 7 by a score of 2–1 and captured their first championship in franchise history. brad richards, with 12 goals and 26 points in the playoffs, won the conn smythe trophy as playoff mvp.
2003–04 nhl season