Burns: 3 Things we learned from a double overtime loss in Game 5

The Tampa Bay Lightning were one shot away, one well-placed puck from moving on to the Stanley Cup Final for the third time in franchise history.
They'll have to wait until Thursday for another chance to make that shot.

The New York Islanders stayed alive for one more game in the Eastern Conference Final, Jordan Eberle's shot on a 2-on-1 rush at 12:30 of double overtime the game-winner in the Isles' 2-1 victory in Game 5.
The Lightning lost out on their bid to close out the series in five games, but still have a 3-2 lead in the series and two more chances to advance to their first Cup Final since 2015, starting with Game 6 on Thursday from Edmonton's Rogers Place.
"It's tough for us obviously, but this is hockey," Victor Hedman said after the Game 5 loss. "It's how you respond to this that's going to define you as a team. I'm not worried about how our group is going to respond to this. We missed an opportunity tonight, but we have a new one here in a couple of days."
Playing without Brayden Point for the second time in the series (both losses), the Lightning fell behind 1-0 in the first period when Islanders defenseman Ryan Pulock connected on a shot from beyond the left circle on a power play.
Tampa Bay tied the game 1-1 in the second period, Hedman hammering a rebound that popped out to the top of the circles four minutes into the middle frame.
From there, the game turned into a defensive standstill. The Lightning held the Islanders to just 24 shots on goal through four-and-a-half periods. The Islanders never had more than six shots in a period, that coming in the second period.
New York stayed patient, however, and was rewarded after converting a 2-on-1 rush, Anders Lee passing across the ice through the block attempt by Mikhail Sergachev for Eberle to one-time into the back of the net.
The Lightning liked a lot about their game Tuesday night.
Everything but the result.
They'll look to get a better one in a couple of days in Game 6.

1. AN UNFORTUNATE END
Moments before Eberle's game winner, Anthony Cirelli had an opportunity to end the game and clinch the Eastern Conference playoff championship for the Lightning.
Nikita Kucherov entered the zone with the puck and waited for the trailing Cirelli, dropping a pass into the centerman's path. Cirelli stickhandled his way through two defenders to get to the net, then sent a shot on goal that missed the target a couple inches wide.
"Kuch made a hell of a play to pull up there and get it to me," Cirelli explained. "One-on-one I just tried to make a move to get it on net. It went a little wide there, but I beared down to try to get one on net."
Had Cirelli made the shot, it would have been the goal of the postseason for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Every highlight video of Tampa Bay's run to the 2020 Stanley Cup Final would have opened with his slick handles to score.
Instead, its nothing more than a minor footnote on Game 5.
Seconds later, after an offensive zone face-off win for the Lightning, Kevin Shattenkirk set up for a shot on the right point. He got only a small piece of the puck when he pulled the trigger, however, allowing Anders Lee to push a pass to himself off the wall and up ahead into the neutral zone to start a break the other way. With only Sergachev back and Shattenkirk racing furiously to get back into the play, Lee held the puck until he got in the left circle and slipped a pass through Sergachev to a wide open Eberle.
And just like that, the game was over.
"That's just an unfortunate play," said Zach Bogosian, who had a similar play happen to him in the Second Round against Boston when his stick broke on a shot from the right point and it lead to a 2-on-1 the other way the Bruins were able to score on. "Those happen every now and then, and they capitalized on it. Shatty's been awesome for us all playoffs. That's not on him. It's just an unfortunate play, and they scored a timely goal. That was it."
In just a few seconds, the Lightning went from controlling play in the overtime sessions and producing a dangerous scoring chance off of Cirelli's moment of brilliance to an unfortunate miscue that ended up in the back of their own net.
"Winning and losing, it's razor thin in this league," Lightning head coach Jon Cooper lamented.

2. 4 MINUTES OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
With the game tied 1-1 late in regulation, Mikhail Sergachev took a high stick from the Islanders' Anthony Beauvillier right in the mouth that drew blood to give the Lightning a four-minute power play on the double major penalty with 1:23 remaining in regulation.
A night earlier, the hockey world watched as the Dallas Stars advanced to the Stanley Cup Final after a penalty early in overtime gave them a power play on which they converted to move on in the postseason.
Would a similar fate await the Lightning?
Unfortunately, Tampa Bay, missing two of its key components to the power play with Point unable to play and captain Steven Stamkos remaining out for the postseason, was unable to get much going on the man-advantage with the chance to wrap up the series.
Nikita Kucherov had the puck slip to him in the lower right circle and fired a shot for the far post that missed by a few inches as time expired in regulation for one of the better chances of the sequence.
Once overtime began, the Lightning still had over two-and-a-half minutes to work with on the power play. But they never really tested Islanders goalie Semyon Varlamov during the stretch, and the Isles escaped unscathed.
"I thought we had some looks once we got some fresh ice, didn't capitalize on them," Alex Killorn said.
New York scored on its first power play, Ryan Pulock beating Vasilevskiy on a shot that was the Islanders only real opportunity as the Bolts had done a good job disrupting the power play up to that point.
The Lightning went 0-for-3 on their power play chances, including the missed opportunity at the end of regulation and into overtime. The Bolts continued with the two defensemen look they've been going with of late on the top unit, putting both Victor Hedman and Mikhail Sergachev on the ice to go with Ondrej Palat, Nikita Kucherov and Alex Killorn.
That grouping has created some good chances for the Lightning in the Eastern Conference Final, but they were unable to generate much of anything in Game 4.
"Both teams got three power plays," Cooper said. "If they would have scored more on theirs, game wouldn't have gone to overtime. We didn't score on ours, that's the way it goes. And so, you can't sit here and say we didn't get looks. We had some looks. They didn't go in. That's hockey. Sometimes it happens."

3. NO REASON FOR PANIC
Despite missing out on an opportunity to close out the Eastern Conference Final and giving the Islanders hope in the series now down just 3-2, the Lightning should feel pretty good about their performance in Game 5, particularly when factoring in the absence of Point, their leading scorer this postseason.
There was a stretch of the third period where the Islanders hadn't recorded a shot by the first media timeout. They finished with just five shots for the entire third.
The Lightning locked the Islanders down defensively. New York finished with 24 shots on goal for the game, a lean total for a 60-minute regulation contest, let alone one that goes into two overtimes.
The Bolts managed the puck smartly in their own end, didn't turn it over much at all and generally frustrated the Islanders offense for much of the game, particularly at 5-on-5.
"We believe in what we're doing," Cooper said. "We didn't come into these playoffs thinking we were going to go 16-0. We just came into these playoffs with a mindset we were going to win 16 games. And the way you have to win those games is to defend the way we've been defending. We keep doing that, I've got a lot of faith in this group."
Victor Hedman said his team did a good job keeping the Islanders to the outside and not letting them get inside position. Both teams were exceptional blocking shots and keeping high danger chances away from their goalie by getting in shooting lanes. Andrei Vasilevskiy was spectacular once again for the Lightning, his best save coming when he denied Mathew Barzal on a breakaway in the first overtime.
Varlamov was really good for the Islanders too as he had more dangerous chances he had to fend off.
The Lightning feel if they continue to defend as a group the way they did in Game 5, they'll come out on top.
They just got unlucky on Tuesday.
"We had opportunities to put the game away and either it was a bounce here or a save here or a blocked shot here, but if you look at the game as a whole, if we keep doing that, I'm pretty confident in our group," Cooper said. "That's why they're seven-game series. Let's be honest, we're in the Conference Finals. Both of these teams are really good. They got a break, and give them credit, they took advantage of the break. They still had to do that. They get one, so as I've told you many times before, turn the page, we'll see you back here Thursday night."