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Archive for the 'Lightning' Category

05 Mar

Bolts Don’t Want To Be In The Playoffs

The Bolts lost last night 5-4 to the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center.  With the loss the Bolts move 3 points out of the 8th playoff spot, with 19 games remaining.
The game was very chippy, due to the last meeting between the two teams at the St Pete Times Forum, but surprisingly didn’t feature [...]

04 Mar

Teddy Purcell Breakdown

After trading Jeff Halpern yesterday, I took a look at the NHL stats for Teddy Purcell, and they seemed to be quite modest at best. After reading a few more articles and pieces on Purcell, it became clear that he had way more upside then his limited stat total in LA seemed to indicate.  THN.com [...]

03 Mar

Lightning Trade Jeff Halpern

Just got an update that the Bolts have moved Jeff Halpern to the Los Angeles Kings for forward Teddy Purcell and a 3rd round pick.
Let’s hope that Mike Smith turns into our goaltender of the future because the trade that sent Brad Richards to the Stars and landed us Jussi Jokinen (who we inexplicably put [...]

03 Mar

Just Pitiful

The Bolts lost last night to the Philadelphia Flyers 7-2 in a game that I would have considered a must win for the Bolts.  Only 2 of our remaining 20 games are against Western Conference opponents, and out of those 18 games, 9 are against teams that we are fighting for playoff spots against, and [...]

01 Mar

Punched In The Gut

I was talking with a good friend before yesterdays goal medal tilt with the Canadiens, trying to summarize my level of excitement for the game.  My friend, said he hadn’t been this excited for a hockey game since the Bolts were in the Stanley Cup Finals.  I personally felt that even then, I didn’t have [...]

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