Lightning coach Jon Cooper said "the right team won" Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, but that he believes the Avalanche haven't seen anything close to his players' best effort yet.

"Give them credit for pulling it out," Cooper said after the Avs won 4-3 in overtime on Wednesday night in Denver to take a 1-0 series lead. "We've got better in us, though. I don't think by a country mile that we gave them our best game and we still had a chance to pull it out. But to beat a talented team like that ... we've got a better game in us."