Dave Hyde: Tampa Bay takes Game 4, but Panthers return home in control of series

Paul Maurice has been around long enough to understand more about some things, like the sorry side of human nature, than he understands about other things, like exactly why the outside conversation changes so dramatically each game in a playoff series.

“The shift outside the room is always far greater than the shift inside the room,’’ the Panthers coach said.

Tampa Bay just staved off summer by beating the Panthers 6-3 in Game 4 of their best-of-seven series. The reasons: Tampa Bay played desperate from the start...