So, he's saying there's a chance.Lightning coach Jon Cooper kept his lips sealed Sunday regarding the Game 3 status of starting goalie Ben Bishop. But he also declined to rule Bishop out, insisting more answers will come Mondayafter the team's morning skate.MORE: | "I don't know," Cooper when asked whether he knows who would start Game 3. "Which should tell you, if I don't Curtis Granderson Jersey know, thenBish could be available."Bishop twice exited Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday for reasons unbeknownst to anyone outside the Lightning organization. Everyone, from Brian Anderson Jersey Cooper to captain Steven Stamkosto rookieAndrei Vasilevskiy, who would get the start if Bishop is unable to go, have been coy when pre sed for details.It wasVasilevskiy who spelled Bishop when he first leftat the 7:17 mark of thethe third periodwiththe game tied 3-3. Bishop re-entereda short time later, but exitedagain at12:19. That's when Tampa took the lead and kept it, thanks toVasilevskiy stopping all five shots he faced.So what was Bishop's i sue? Some speculated he was under the weather, cramped or had re-aggravated Caleb Smith Jersey an existing injury.There had alsobeen an earlier collision with Blackhawks forward Antoine Vermettethat could have shaken him up.No one knows for sure. And the Lightning have been silent other than to re-affirm theirconfidencein the talented 20-year-oldVasilevskiy, should he be called upon to man the net.The Ru sian, considered hockey's best goaltending prospect,earned the Game 2 win in Bishop's absence, becoming just the fourth goalie to win his Miguel Rojas Jersey first career playoff game in the Stanley Cup Final."I'll tell you, I don't know if we have a more prepared player in our locker room than (Vasilevskiy)," Cooper said. "He's ready to go in at any moment. You've got to love that in him. So if Bish can't go tomorrow, is that a blow to us? Sure JT Riddle Jersey it is. But do we think the series is lost because Vasilevskiy is going in? Not a chance. I look at our tandem, and I'd like to stack them up against any tandem in the league because I thinkwe've got1 and 1A."
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