I hate being the front office bashing type. Normally, I like giving front offices the benefit of the doubt, and letting them show me why they are GM’s and I’m just some jamoke who writes for a website.  There are a couple things though, even with the much improved play of the Lightning that irked me at the time of the move, and are really irking me right now.
Trade of Matt Carle and a 3rd round pick to Philly for Steve Downie, Steve Eminger and a 4th round pick.
Matt Carle is tied for first in the league with 9 [...]

Actually, they win 2!!
Sorry for the delay on this post, but I was arrested for trying to get free hats off of the ice at Saturday nights game against the Hurricanes, and am just now getting out of lockup! I kid, I kid. Saturday nights game ended the way our previous few should have, with a 5 -2 win. We finished the game with 44 shots on net and a Ryan Malone hat trick. Steve Downie also put one in, as well as Paul Ranger, who despite sucking all night on defense, contributed to the win with a goal and an [...]

Tonight the Tampa Bay Lightning lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in a shootout. The final score was 2 to 1. For some reason, unknown to all lightning fans, the second game of the season was not televised so I can’t do too much commenting on how we played. We had 30 shots on net, compared to Carolina’s 29. Ryan Malone tallied the lone goal of the night for Bolts. Mike Smith ended the game with a .96 save percentage, and a second star of the game.
So to recap, we have lost both of our first two games, one in overtime. [...]

I also wanted  to throw up a good fight from last nights game.  Zenon Konopka fought a much bigger Chris Thorburn, and held his own.  Zenon is not afraid of a soul, big or small, and should have lots of these video clips this year.

I’m not sure if anyone would look at the score of the Bolts game from last night and think that we are headed in a direction any different from last year, but I must tell you, we certainly are.  Losing 6-3 was, to say the least, disheartening, but if you look deeper at the stats, or if you watched the game, you know this is a different team.
First off, we shot 39 shots. Ondrej Pavelec, the young netminder for the Thrashers was superb.  We had 23 scoring chances in the game, compared to 17 for the Thrashers.  Line 2 [...]