3 big hits and a goal create one of the craziest sequences of the season.

Crazy stuff.

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3 big hits and a goal create one of the craziest sequences of the season.

The Sunday night match up between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Ottawa Senators produced some pretty spectacular fireworks.

Although the Senators would eventually leave the game very frustrated as the result of a late call in the game against veteran forward Mikkel Boedker, one that Senators head coach Guy Boucher would later condemn in his post game press conference, they were the beneficiaries of an absolutely wild play earlier in the evening.

The Senators and the Lightning were battle on what was an extended shift in the final 5 minutes of the games 3rd period and every player on the ice was showing the effects of a very back and forth game. It was then that Matt Duchene, who had just been called out by the broadcast team for being tired on the ice, delivered a thunderous hit to Lightning forward Tyler Johnson. That hit was the spark that led to all hell breaking loose at Duchene was then hit by Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov, although this time Duchene did not have the puck and Kucherov was rightfully called for a penalty. 

A scrum would then ensue on the play but the whistle was never blown and although one official looked to seperate the Lightning and the Senators on one end of the ice, Ottawa's Mark Stone was leading the charge into the Lightning zone. Stone himself was then leveled by a big hit from Lightnign veteran Dan Girardi but not before he manged to get the puck out and onto the stick of a his teammate, Senators center Chris Tierney, who came streaking into the Lightning zone and eventually set up Cody Ceci for a goal. 

Now although each highlight on it's own would have been pretty cool, the fact that so many of them came together in short order to create this sequence of events had the fans at the Canadian Tire Center going wild. Oerhaps unsurprisingly the Canadian broadcast of the event also seemed to indicate that the broadcast crew was largely left speechless by what they had just witnessed. 

Given the length of the entire thign it likely won't go down as one of the plays of the year, but it was pretty awesome to see nonetheless.

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