Jon Cooper gives his players a harsh ultimatum after going down 3-0

The Tampa Bay Lightning are at a low point right now, having fallen 3-0 against the Florida Panthers in their Stanley Cup playoffs series.

This is heartbreaking for the team who went to three consecutive cup finals, winning two of them, and head coach Jon Cooper made things clear to his team if they were on the verge of giving up.

Nikita Kucherov, who won the Art Ross trophy this season and will be in the conversation for the Hart (league MVP) hasn't looked like himself, and Conn Smythe and Vézina winner Andrei Vasilevskiy hasn't either, despite having backstopped a cup championship just two years ago.

Thus, Jon Cooper has given his team an ultimatum - if they don't believe they can turn this series around and win, they shouldn't show up to the rink at all:

While the odds are stacked against them, if there's one team that never gives up, it's the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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