In my head, there were a few goals to start this FA period for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
1.  Lock up Steven Stamkos to a long term deal
2.  Resign Martin St Louis to a 3-4 year deal
3.  Move one money contract from the roster, preferably Andrej Meszaros
Stevie Y accomplished both 2 and 3 on the first day of FA.    For starters, he locked up Marty to a 4 year 22.5 million dollar deal.
“Today is a great day for the Lightning organization,” Yzerman said. “Marty means so much to this franchise, both on and off the ice. His hard work [...]

When the drafted started to unfold the other night, and the Bolts pick was up, I was sure that we were going to take either Cam Fowler or Brandon Gormley.  I was actually leaning towards Gormley myself, and thought he would have been a great pick for our steadily improving blueline.
Steve Yzerman surprised just about everyone (including all the Bolts beat writers) and took winger Brett Connolly.  We actually needed a top line young winger more than a Dman, but I just didn’t think the Bolts would take the chance on Connolly with his injury history.
Connolly is only the 2nd [...]

This has nothing to do with the Lightning, but more to do with my insane level of hatred that I have for Sidney Crosby.
While rooting for the Canadiens is normally akin to sticking my head into a pile of dog throw up, I have to say, I was rooting for the Halak’s to beat the Penguins bad, not just last night but all series.  Why would I root for the gross Habs (even though by doing so, I was forced to stab myself in the eyes each night with an old fork), because I hate Sidney Crosby that much.
Everything about [...]

Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch reportedly recently attempted some re-shuffling of his front office in order to keep highly sought after Hall of Famer Steve Yzerman with the Detroit Red Wings.  He supposedly approached GM Ken Holland about becoming team president in order for Steve Yzerman to apparently assume the role of GM.
“I’m the general manager, I don’t have any interest in becoming president,” Holland said. “I’m a general manager, that’s what I was hired to do.”
Ouch.  Not exactly what you want to hear if your a Motor City fan hoping to keep one of your all time greats in [...]

Once again, sorry for the delay in between posts, but it has kind of been a dead time for the Tampa Bay Lightning. While other teams are fighting for the chance to play the Stanley Cup, all that is happening in Lightning land is the rumors of who is going to be running our organization. Enough of that though, the reason for this post is Steven “Mother F’n” Stamkos.
As we all know, Steven Stamkos tied Sidney Crosby for the league lead in goals. How much pub did Stammers get for this, about 0. Crosby got all [...]

I’m sorry for the delay in between posts, as I have been out of town on business, and have found it hard to get a few minutes to give our loyal readers something to talk about.  So much has happened since our last post, I don’t think its particularly important to go back and talk about the weeks of losing, but their has obviously been some big news lately surrounding our club.
As everyone knows, Steven Stamkos, in his 2nd season in the NHL tied Sidney Crosby for the league lead in goals with 51.  There are so many good things [...]

The Tampa Bay Lightning lost an embarrassing game last night to the NY Rangers, 5 to 0.
The Rangers got 4 first period goals from Brandon Prust, Marc Staal, Vinny Prospal and Brandon Dubinsky to put the game out of reach before the Bolts even really knew what hit them.
Mike Smith lasted a grand total of 7 shots on goal, allowing all 4 of the first period goals.  At this point, I have pretty much given up hope on Smitty becoming a starting caliber goaltender.  He has a fire that I really like, and occasionally has games that make you think [...]

Being as though the game was not on TV last night, I can only tell you what I know from following the Bolts on Twitter and reading up on the game, post game.  The Bolts lost their 2nd straight, losing to the Blue Jackets 3 to 2.
It seemed like I was receiving a Twitter update every few minutes that the Bolts were going on the Penalty Kill and after looking at the Box Score, we pretty much were.  The Bolts picked up 2 fighting majors and 6 other penalties, 5 of which came in the third period and led to [...]