Today the Tampa Bay Lightning re-assigned Matt Lashoff and Mike Lundin to Norfolk of the AHL. Looks like the blue line is starting to shape up.  These are the remaining D-Men fighting for the job.

6
KURTIS FOSTER
6′ 5″
220
NOV 24, 1981
27
CARP, ON, CAN

21
DAVID HALE
6′ 2″
213
JUN 18, 1981
28
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, USA

77
VICTOR HEDMAN
6′ 6″
220
DEC 18, 1990
18
ORNSKOLDSVIK, SWE

2
LUKAS KRAJICEK
6′ 2″
196
MAR [...]

from ESPN.com

2009-2010 Power Rankings: Week 1

RK (PV)
TEAM
REC.
COMMENT

1
Penguins
0-0-0
Hey, they’re the defending Stanley Cup champs. They get a free pass to the top of the rankings for at least a week.

2
Sharks
0-0-0
These are regular-season rankings, not playoff rankings, which explains why the Sharks are here and not in the trash bin.

3
Flyers
0-0-0
This is a good, big, deep, hungry team. [...]

The Lightning capped a generally encouraging preseason last night with a 5 to 1 drubbing of the Atlanta Thrashers. The Bolts finish off their 2009-2010 preseason with a record of 4 wins. 3 losses, with 1 win and 1 loss coming in overtime. The overtime loss came in a game against Dallas where none of [...]

Marty St Louis scored last night with 6 seconds left in OT to give the Lightning a thrilling OT victory vs the Edmonton Oilers.
The Lightning had to kill off two penalties in OT in order to get the victory.  The Bolts PK unit, one of the teams real weak points last year, has been stellar [...]

I’ve had season tickets to the Lightning for 5 years now.  I can’t recall ever going to a preseason game.  I might have been to a few and they were just so nondescript that I don’t have any recollection of it.   Friday night though, in our first and only preseason home game, the Lightning [...]