Round 3 Takeaways: How the Lightning beat the Islanders

As individual playoff series have wrapped up this post-season, we've been drawing takeaways from each of them by highlighting the key trends that helped push the winning teams over the top.

Since styles tend to make fights this time of year, it's particularly useful to identify what teams have done well to generate their positive results. The beauty of doing so is that it can hopefully provide us with actionable bits of information that really come in handy moving forward, when trying to forecast how things will look against a different opponent in a future matchup.

We've already taken a closer look at how the Canadiens were able to upset the Golden Knights, becoming the first team to advance to the Stanley Cup Final. This time we're now going to focus on how the Lightning were able to join