CHICAGO Anton Stralman is 28 years old. Hes one of the smartest, always-in-the-right-place players youll see. Hes played in more than 550 NHL games. He knows how this works.Sometimes you get the Darrius Heyward-Bey Jersey bounces and chances you need, the Tampa Bay defenseman said, and sometimes you dont.MORE: | On Wednesday night, the Lightning got some of the bounces they needed, and a few of the chances but not all of them. Tampatried to tap a well during the frantic last minute of Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, and it came up dry. Blackhawks forward Andrew Desjardins called it scrambly, and it was the understatement of the night.We had four or five great looks (at the end), Steven Stamkos said. It just seemed to be one of those nights where it just wasnt going in for us.Call it all regre sion, or karma, or whatever, but we saw one of the most fundamental, frustrating principles of hockey in action at United Center. Inches decide games, and no team can get all the bounces, all the time. Its not fair, per se its just unfair for everyone at one time or another.In 46 seconds alone, after Chicago iced the puck with Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy on the bench, the Lightning created five shot attempts. Chicago blocked two. Tampa mi sed two others, and another by Stralman made it to Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford.The Lightnings best, nearest mi s actually came with 1:13 left, when Stamkos, alone in the slot and with Crawford out of position, tried to redirect a pa s through Johnny Oduya and Brent Seabrook. Seabrook, by an inch, got his stick on the puck, and it mi sed wide.The final score: 2- Ryan Shazier Jersey 1 Chicago. The series: tied at two games apiece. Stamkos: Still without a goal in the Final. Puck luck: in flux.Ill be honest: I don’t know how one of those didn’t go in. I’m sure there was 22,000 nervous people in the stands when we were zipping it around there, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. I just like the fact he’s getting himself in those positions to score. They just didn’t go in tonight.The thing is, though, a bunch didnt go in for Chicago, either. The Blackhawks hit three posts during the game. One was off a redirect; the other came on a breakaway by Patrick Sharp; the third (and saddest) came when Jesse James Jersey Patrick Kane circled through the Tampa zone and fed Kimmo Timonen, who was back in the lineup looking for something like redemption after the Anaheim Ducks pounded him, then skated past him, then forced him to the bench.Timonen hit the cro sbar.You cant always get everything you want, Timonen said in Finnish after the game. Im just happy I was part of the game and we got what I mostly wanted, a win.And it was a win the Blackhawks needed. After six periods largely of crummy luck remember, they hit metal in Game 3, and Ben Bishop stopped 36 other shots thanks to, presumably,some comboof Mike Hilton Jersey magnets and cortisone the worm turned. Game 5 is in Tampa on Saturday.Chicago, yet again, was forced into a situation where ithad to play down 2-1 in a series. Yet again, the Blackhawkscame through.Its a huge win, honestly, Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmar son said. Its good for our morale in here too, get our spirits up and get a smile on our faces. This team gets pretty miserable losing games, and a lot of pi sed-off faces around here.Down the hall, the faces were pi sed-off, but only a little. Stralman isnt the only one who gets it. Youll hear a lot over the next couple days about whether Stamkos is slumping, or squeezing his stick. He was a fraction of Seabrooks stick away from not having to think about it, or answer questions about it. Yet there he was at his locker, doing both and keeping perspective.”Nope. Not frustrated. I mean, it’s going to go, Stamkos said. If I had those two chances over again I’d try to get it away as quick as I could. The first one, their ‘D’ got a stick on it. Not much I can do. The looks are coming. Our game is right there. They’re eventually going to start going in, hopefully in bunches.This one is a tough one. I thought we had it. We had the game Tyson Alualu Jersey right where we felt comfortable and they get one (by Brandon Saad) off a faceoff, a little broken-down play. We’ll regroup here and get back and ready to play in front of our fans.”Part of that mindset comes from Cooper, whose reputation for pushing the right buttons at the right times is deserved. His talking points on Wednesday were, as usual, focused on proce s, and the things his players can control.”I know the series is tied2-2, but we’ve had a chance to win every single game, he said.They need the bounces too, though. And whether that happens isnt up to them.