Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to author The Tampa Bay Lightning confidently defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 4 of the National Hockey League's first round playoff series. The Lightning scored seven goals against a formidable opponent, and Nikita Kucherov graced an important victory with a great pass. In the first games of the Tampa and Toronto series, many had the impression that the champions of the last two NHL seasons had not yet rolled into the playoffs and frankly sleeping. This was indirectly talked about and the head coach of the “lightning” John Cooper. The Canadian specialist emphasized that two victories with ten goals against Andrei Vasilevsky, which “Toronto” scored the day before, were literally presented to the opponent. The risk of facing a resounding failure and being eliminated from the first round of the playoffs, losing to one of the losing teams in this very stage, woke up the Lightning for the fourth game. Now, as John Cooper himself put it earlier, the Maple Leafs did not see any «freebies».