by Joe Lami

Tampa Bay-Chicago series is tied 2-2: Game four of these finals was a slower game in which the Chicago Blackhawks won by one goal over the Tampa Bay Lighting 2-1. You didn’t see Lighting goaltender Ben Bishop in Wednesday’s game he was replaced by back up goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy who stopped 19 shots and allowed two goals.

There is still speculation on the injury of Bishop and also what will come out about him once the finals are over. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens with the Lighting if they can hang on. Vasilevskiy has the pressure on him in case Bishop can’t return. He’s a number two goalie and the Lighting are playing with the number two goalie.

The Hawks Brandon Saad scored the game winner in the third period. When they win they have done so in spectacular and they got outshot in game four but Saad got the game winner. On the gamer it came off a weird face off from the left circle it was won by the Hawks Brad Richards who picked it up by the crease and skated past the Tampa Bay goal keeper.

This has been such a good series this one is going the distance, this has the makings of being one of the best Stanley Cup Finals of all time. Especially with the one goal game every single game this series being decided by one goal. This has been that kind of a series that it could go seven and it could be decided by one game late in that seventh game. It very well could be overtime in game seven as well.

It was a huge task for Vasilevskiy who only got to see 19 shots in that fourth game with 17 saves in game four and the defense definitely needs to be in front of Vasilevskiy without Bishop in net its going to be interesting. The Blackhawks Saad’s contract is up and the Hawks will do everything they can to keep Saad and that includes the Hawks trying to trade away some of their key players.

The Hawks will run into cap issues with the $9 million deal going into next season and don’t be surprised if they look at Marian Hossa and Patrick Kane as free agents. For the 2015-16 season the Blackhawks are going to be in a lot of trouble they going to trade away some of their better players. On the block right now is Patrick Sharp who making $6 million next year and he’s a great second line skater and the team can go out and snag a player of his talent.

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