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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman arrives at a White House ceremony honoring the 2020-2021 Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning on April 25, 2022.
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Unsurprisingly, social media users took to Twitter to come up with their best Batman jokes.
Monday was the Lightning’s first trip to the White House, despite winning the coveted Stanley Cup three times. The 2004-05 NHL lockout prevented that year’s team from going, and the pandemic delayed this opportunity until nine months after the second of these back-to-back championships.
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President Joe Biden holds a jersey during a ceremony with Tampa Bay Lightning to celebrate their 2020 and 2021 Stanley Cup championships at the White House, on Monday, April 25, 2022.
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Tampa Bay is looking to become the first to win the Cup three years in a row since the nhl dynasty did it in the early 1980s.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
