"I'm really disappointed in the team right now," Lightning coach Rick Tocchet said. "It's unacceptable. ... Obviously we never showed up, so the culture's going to be changed. That's terrible. It's the most disappointed I've been as coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning after seeing that effort.

"It looked good, then Phoenix started getting their legs and we just stopped skating. Some guys looked like they were in quicksand."

Tocchet had given the team three days off following their 4-1 win in Atlanta to begin the current six-game road trip.

"If guys can't be men you have to treat them like kids," Tocchet said. "We're gonna have to start tying the knot to them even more. Maybe I'm the idiot for giving a little too much rope but it's going to be reeled in now."