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2011 NHL Preliminary round - Series 1125.
Tampa Bay Lightning vs Pittsburgh Penguins

Schedule and 2010-11 Results
Regular Season Records: Pittsburgh 49-25-8=106pts, Tampa Bay 46-25-11=103pts
Game 1 on Wednesday, 13 April: Tampa Bay loses at Pittsburgh, 3-goals-nil
Game 2 on Friday, 15 April: Tampa Bay wins at Pittsburgh, 5-goals-1
Game 3 on Monday, 18 April: Pittsburgh wins at Tampa Bay, 3-goals-2
Game 4 on Wednesday, 20 April: Pittsburgh wins at Tampa Bay, 3-goals-2 (2OT)
Game 5 on Saturday, 23 April: Tampa Bay wins at Pittsburgh, 8-goals-2
Game 6 on Monday, 25 April: Pittsburgh loses at Tampa Bay, 4-goals-2
Game 7 on Wednesday, 27 April: Tampa Bay wins at Pittsburgh, 1-goal-nil

SERIES NOTES:

Post-series assessment: Surmounting a 3-games-1 deficit, the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-games-3 in MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1125. With the series 1125 victory, the Tampa Bay Lightning improve their best-of-7 NHL playoff series record to 6-4 overall and 3-3 in the Preliminary round. With their series 1125 loss, the Pittsburgh Penguins see their best-of-7 NHL playoff series record fall to 26-18 overall and 12-5 in the Preliminary round. The series 1125 win order for the victorious Tampa Bay Lightning was LWLLWWW: Series 1125 thus becomes the ninth NHL Preliminary-round series, the tenth NHL series (all rounds), and the 18th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow that win order to completion. The 1-goal-nil road Game 7 victory by Tampa was only the third 1-goal-nil road Game 7 win in the history of best-of-7 NHL playoff series, last accomplished by the St. Louis Blues (in Phoenix against the Coyotes in their 1999 NHL Preliminary-round series, in which St. Louis also surmounted a 3-games-1 deficit for a 4-games-3 series victory).

Pre-series assessment: In the 2010-11 regular season, Pittsburgh finished three points ahead of Tampa Bay. From 1939 through the 2010 NHL Finals, when NHL teams led their best-of-7 playoff series opponents by three regular-season points, they have posted an 11-17 (.393) best-of-7 series record in those series against those opponents. MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1125 is the 10th best-of-7 playoff series for Tampa Bay, and the 44th for Pittsburgh. In best-of-7 playoff series, Tampa Bay has a 5-4 series record, a 2-3 Prelim-round series record, and a 3-6 Game 1 record, while Pittsburgh has a 26-17 series record, a 12-4 Prelim-round record, and a 20-23 Game 1 record. Series 1125 is the first best-of-7 NHL playoff series meeting between Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh.