Stanley Cup Finals Game 7: The Inside Story

HERO: Ruslan Fedotenko. Injured in Game Three and forced to miss Game Four, he became the eighth player in Stanley Cup Finals history to score two goals in Game Seven.

GOAT: Andrew Ference. He clipped Martin St. Louis with his stick behind the net with 61 seconds remaining, all but dashing the Flames' comeback attempt.

TURNING POINT: Fedotenko's power-play goal in the first period. The team that scored first won all seven games in the series.

BY THE NUMBERS: The Flames tied an NHL record by playing their 26th game of the postseason. The mark was set in 1987 by the Philadelphia Flyers. Goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff set a playoff record for minutes played at 1,655.

NOT IN THE BOXSCORE: The Lightning became just the fifth team to win the Stanley Cup after trailing three games to two. The others were the 2001 Colorado Avalanche, 1971 Montreal Canadiens, 1964 Toronto Maple Leafs and 1950 Detroit Red Wings.

TRENDS: Brad Richards became the 12th center to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the postseason. Only goaltenders (13) have won it more often. He scored or set up 11 of Tampa Bay's 16 game-winning goals in the playoffs.

MORE TRENDS: The home team is 11-2 in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Lightning became the sixth franchise to win the championship in its first Finals appearance.

STARS OFF THE ICE: Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, Fred McGriff and Tino Martinez of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Tampa Bay Buccaneers fullback Mike Alstott and ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale.

THEY SAID IT: "You get knocked down, you get up. Doesn't matter how many times you fail, it's how quick you get back up." -- Lightning right wing Martin St. Louis.

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