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 [...]

Occasionally I get in a random stat scouring mode.  Not really sure why this happens, but I end up looking at random stats for all sports for a couple hours.  This morning happened to be one of those days.
I ran across something interesting while looking at PIM stats.  For the most part, PIM guys tend to be on the minus end of +/-.  There are a few players who do not fall in that classification though, and one of them is Steve Downie.  Although Downie is 3rd in the league in PIMs with 202, out of the top 24 PIM [...]

Sorry for the delay between posts, I just got back from a week and half New Orleans vacation…
I’m a very level headed sports fan in regards to the teams that I watch.  Sometimes in order for teams to become stronger, they must be awful for a few years.  This fact I think holds the most true in the NHL.
If you take a look around the league, 3 of the best teams, Washington, Pittsburgh and Chicago all became dominant because of the fact that they were awful enough to procure high end draft picks, and they didn’t miss on those picks.
Washington [...]

Sorry for the delay between posts, as I have been on vacation for over a week. I wasn’t able to see the game last night, but I’ll put up the highlights for you to see. I get back on Wednesday night, and have a lot of things I want to write about the spiral downward this team has taken over the last few weeks.

With 10 goals, 14 assists and a +14 over his last 26 games, the Lightning have put up a tribute video for gritty winger Steve Downie.