STANLEY CUP FINALS…
COLORADO 4 – Tampa Bay 3 (OT)… Andre Burakovsky scored off a Valeri Nichushkin pass 1:23 into overtime to lift the Avalanche over the Lightning in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Nichushkin, along with Gabriel Landeskog and Artturi Lehkonen, scored first-period goals to stake Colorado to a two-goal lead. Tampa Bay’s Ondrej Palat and Mikhail Sergachev scored 48 seconds apart in the second period to tie the game. The series remains in Denver for Game 2 on Saturday.