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The Tampa Bay Lightning's Tocchet, Lecavalier, St. Louis and playing "gritty"
"When we start to lose focus and we lose our grittiness, you can tell we’re a different hockey club, we’re in trouble as a hockey club. But when we’re focused and got a little bit of...
Panthers fall to 1-4 with pathetic 3rd period loss to Lightning
Cats blow a third-period lead - against the Lightning - and end the day (heck, the week) pointless. Guess I shouldn't leave town again. Ever. First off, big thanks to DolPhanDave a...
Steve Downie's shot at the top six
....[Now] we come to the player with the most experience of the contenders for that right wing slot: Steve Downie. Downie's self-control and impulse-control issues do not permit him to be a seriou...
The Newest Member of the Lightning (Probably): Alex Tanguay
The likelihood of Alex Tanguay joining the Tampa Bay Lightning has just gone up. Here's some comments from Lightning general manager Brian Lawton about the team agreeing to a deal with wing Alex Tang...
The Lightning's slick new promo
I love stuff like this. I remember when they had one for that campy Snakes On A Plane movie and you better believe half the people I knew got a call from Samuel L. Jackson. I guess Rick Tocchet calls ...
Mike Smith is on the Hot Seat
Every team has multiple dramatic stories each year. You can single out tons of issues that any franchise - from the bottom-dwelling Bolts to the champion Pittsburgh Penguins -- face. How c...
Under the Big Top - An OK Hockey / Lightning Time Line
jpfdeuce and I put our heads together and came up with an OK Hockey time line of travesty. Here are some of the highlights (or lowlights?) of Lightning hockey since they've taken control of the franch...
Mike Smith and the Lightning goaltending situation
Goaltender Mike Smith, the Lightning's #1 goalie, ended up playing through the effects of Post Concussion Syndrome in December 2008, aggravated things in early January 2009, and has been r...
NHL News and Notes: 5.12.09
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Rick Tocchet -- Head Coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Lets forget the Melrose incursion ever happened, ok? Lets try to erase from memory the entire European Vacation for that matter... Call it the Lightning's official Lost Weekend. No on-ice...
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