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).