Overturned goals doom Tampa Bay Lightning in season finale - ESPN

Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper was highly critical of two goalie interference calls that went against his team in their Game 5 loss to the Florida Panthers, which eliminated the Lightning from the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Monday night.

«This is clearly a turning point in the game. If anyone's going to talk about this game, they're going to talk about the goals that were taken away,» Cooper said after the 6-1 loss to Florida, a score inflated by two empty-net goals by the Panthers.

The first goalie interference review was a coach's challenge initiated by Florida at 13 minutes of the first period. Video review determined that Tampa Bay's Anthony Duclair impaired Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky's ability to play his position in the crease prior to Anthony Cirelli's goal.

Cooper felt that Panthers defenseman Gustav Forsling was holding Duclair on the play.

«You saw our reaction. It's just one of those… it's very frustrating,» Duclair said. «I always have a ref screaming in my ear. I thought I was out of the blue paint. When you look at the video, I was clearly out of there. It is what it is, it's a judgement call.»

The second goalie interference play happened at 17:48 of the second period, as a goal was immediately waved off when the officials said Cirelli made incidental contact with Bobrovsky while battling defenseman Niko Mikkola. Tampa Bay challenged the call, but it was upheld on video review.

«Obviously, it sucks. But it's our job to go out there and keep battling and trying to get the next one. When you think you have a goal and it goes the other way, you get down a little bit. But it doesn't matter. You go out there and keep playing,» Cirelli said.

Cooper felt that Bobrovsky embellished on the play.

«I'll give the goalie