STANLEY CUP FINALS Vincent Lecavalier leads Lightning to Game 2 win

Tampa Bay's 4-1 victory tied the series with Calgary, 1-1.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- When a All-Star player clashes with his coach, one of the two often goes. With the Tampa Bay Lightning, a demanding coach and a sometimes recalcitrant player both stayed.
Look where it's gotten them -- three more victories and a team called the worst in American pro sports only a couple of years ago will win the Stanley Cup.
Vincent Lecavalier, a player whose moodiness and perceived me-first attitude had the Lightning considering trading him 21/2 years ago, set up two goals and was a physical force throughout Tampa Bay's series-tying 4-1 victory over Calgary on Thursday night.
Lecavalier played much like Calgary's Jarome Iginla did in the Flames' 4-1 win in Game 1, displaying creativity at one end of the ice and a nastiness at the other in what essentially was a must-win game. Game 3 is Saturday night in Calgary.
Lethargy reversed
"If you lose two in a row in a seven-game series, you are in deep trouble," coach John Tortorella said after the first Stanley Cup final win in the Lightning's 12-season history. "You do the math."
Lecavalier did, and he determined the Lightning's lethargic, uninspiring effort in Game 1 didn't add up. He decided to do something about it.
Lecavalier didn't score the all-important goal about seven minutes in that ended Calgary's streak of not allowing a first-period score in nine consecutive games. But he was largely responsible for it.
Lecavalier skated the puck out from behind the net after faking Stephane Yelle with what effectively was a pass to himself and fed it to Jassen Cullimore in the right circle. His shot rebounded to Ruslan Fedotenko, who swept it past Miikka Kiprusoff as it lay in the crease for his seventh goal in nine games and 10th of the playoffs.
"It wasn't the moves that were the most important part of his game. I thought his presence was the most important thing," said Tortorella, who long ago smoothed over his relationship with Lecavalier. "I thought he showed a physical presence, and you could just see him maturing, saying to the team, 'Follow me.' "
Iginla tamed
Iginla was relatively quiet in Game 2 as Calgary never found an offensive rhythm while going 0-for-5 on the power play during the first two periods.
After that, it was all but over when Richards, Dan Boyle and Martin St. Louis scored in the first six minutes of the third period. Dave Andreychuk, the Lightning's 40-year-old captain who is playing in his first Stanley Cup final, and Lecavalier both set up two goals.
After seeing their five-game road winning streak end, the Flames return to a home ice where they are 4-5 in the playoffs, scoring only six goals in their last four games.
Iginla said the Flames must regain the physical edge they lacked while managing only 19 shots in Game 2, few of them quality chances.
"They were more intense, they were more desperate," said Iginla, who was held to two shots. "They beat us to loose pucks. They were more physical and that's just the way it was."