Braydon Coburn thinks the real Tampa Bay Lightning have shown up in the past 2 1/2 weeks, and their success in that time is a sign of what's to come for the rest of this season.

The Lightning (8-5-2) have won seven of their past eight games (7-1-0) after going 1-4-2 in their first seven They host the New York Rangers at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa on Wednesday (7 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, TNT, TVAS).

"This team had way too much talent, experience, pedigree to have the start they had," Coburn said on this week's episode of the "NHL @TheRink" podcast .

Coburn, who joined the podcast with co-hosts Dan Rosen and Shawn P. Roarke on Wednesday, is a former NHL defenseman who played 350 games with Tampa Bay from 2015-20. He is now an analyst on its television broadcasts and a regular co-h

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