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 | | By 2003 the Lightning, led by the goaltending of Nikolai Khabibulin and the scoring efforts of Martin St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier and Vaclav Prospal found themselves atop the Southeast Division and in the playoffs for the first time in seven years. |
 | | Although they lost the first-round series to the Flyers, it still remains a magical season for Lightning fans (and the attendance of 28,183 on April 23 was the most for any NHL game until the Heritage Classic — a game played outdoors in Edmonton, Alberta in 2003). |
 | | They hired 1970s Boston Bruins star Phil Esposito (Lightning founder) to be the general manager, his brother Tony as chief scout and Terry Crisp, who played for the Philadelphia Flyers when they won two Stanley Cups in the mid-1970s, and coached the Calgary Flames to a Stanley Cup in 1989, to stand behind the bench. |
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