The tale of Jon Cooper's journey to the Stanley Cup Final is almost too good to be true. A former criminal defense attorney who played lacrosse in college and gave up practicing law to pursue a career in hockey, the coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning didn't take a traditional path to landing a job in the NHL and guiding his team within three victories of the sport's most coveted trophy. Cooper is an exceptional communicator who began working with most of Tampa Bay's younger players, including the ''Triplets'' line of Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov, in the minor leagues. More...