The Tampa Bay Lightning ended the New York Rangers' eight-game home playoff winning streak with a 3-1 win in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night, pushing them to the brink of elimination.

"We've been down 3-2 in every series so far," forward Andrew Copp said. "We're going to have to have a level of desperation. There's belief in the room. We played a pretty solid hockey game."

Defenseman Jacob Trouba underscored that belief.

"It definitely stings," he said. "But we have to go there, win a game, come back here and play a Game 7. That's the goal now. We're going to go to Tampa and win a game."