TAMPA, Fla. — As his Lightning teammates tried to chase history, Brayden Point was forced to watch from the televisions in the team’s locker room during the last four games of the Stanley Cup Final.
The leading goal scorer the previous two postseasons tried to return from a torn right quad muscle he sustained in Game 7 of the first-round series with Toronto. But after playing in the first two games of the Cup final against Colorado — and logging just one shot on goal — it was clear that the injury was hindering Point too much.
He couldn’t be the player he needed to be to help the Lightning.
