Let me explain. My brother was able to get in contact with the Bolts new (possible) starting goalie Dan Ellis. We asked if he would mind answering a few questions for the site. He said said “sure thing”. Not only did he answer our questions, he also said if we needed anything else just to ask him. So I figured I might as well get this out of the way… Hey Dan, do you need anyone to hang out with during intermissions at home games? I’ll be in section 302 if you do. Just let me know. Until then, here [...]

So my brothers last post might not have been too accurate, I think the Bolts may want to make the playoffs. In the last two games the Bolts have scored 10 goals. Now I’m not going to attribute this success to the trade made for Teddy Purcell, but his impact is already visible. In last nights game against the Atlanta Trashers, Teddy had a goal and an assist. From the beginning of the game, Teddy made it apparent that he wanted to score. On a line with Ryan Malone, and Vinny Lecavalier, that might be a real thing for Teddy [...]

I have been watching hockey for quite some time, and don’t know if I have ever witnessed what I saw on Friday night.  The lights @ The Prudential Center in crappy Newark, NJ stopped working.  It looked for awhile that they might finish the game, essentially using the long break while fixing the lights as an intermission, only switching sides at the end of the 9 minutes remaining in the 2nd period.  Eventually though, the light malfunction caused the game to be picked back up from where it stood Friday night, on Sunday.
Before the light malfunction, the Lightning were in [...]

Question: Why does it smell so bad in here?
Answer: It’s because the entire building is full of Montreal Canadiens fans! Well not entirely full, and not all Montreal Fans. I think I may need to share a few things before I continue with this post so you know where its coming from.
My list of hated sports teams goes something like this:
1.) New England Patriots
2.) Philadelphia Flyers..ugh
3.)The Cowboys, Eagles, Yankees, and Red Socks all share this spot.
4.)Any Canadian hockey team (including this years Olympic team, but minus the Canucks)
My list is built like this for many extremely petty reasons. The Patriots [...]

I didn’t get a chance to watch the Blues-Lightning game Friday because of a holiday party that I attended, but the Bolts came up with a big win and a lot of goals to boot. It seems like the kind of game that can break a team out a deep slump, both in the losing column and in the scoring column. The game featured goals but Martin St Louis, Steven Stamkos (2), Kurtis Foster and Jeff Halpern (2).
The Bolts didn’t particularly shoot a ton of shots (24) to the Blue 26, but Chris Mason obviously had [...]

Sensing a need to shake up the lines last night, Rich Tochett made some big changes to the offensive lines for the game.
“Maybe this will shock a lot of people, I don’t now. Honestly, I don’t care,” Tocchet said. ”We have to get this thing straightened out and it’s on the coaches and on the players right now. We’re eight of nine. We lose because teams are better than us, you can live with that. But I think there are some games we were outplaying a team and for whatever reason we just went the other way. It’s mind-boggling and it’s [...]

Last night the Tampa Bay Lightning snapped the four game OT loss slide, by winning in OT against the Leafs 2-1. Vinny Lecavalier and Ryan Malone had the 2 goals for our squad, which was enough to squeak by the slumping Leafs. According to the Twitter account of our General Managers wife, there was not an empty seat in the house, which is far from what the Bolts see at home games.  The real story of the night is the Phil Kessel played his first game of the season for Toronto last night. Mr. Mattias Ohlund brought him a present [...]

Tonight the Bolts lost to the Philadelphia Flyers in a 6 to 2 rout. If you watch the highlights from tonights game, you will see that it wasn’t all poor goal tending that got us into this mess. Our defense didn’t do much to help in the way of stopping some of the best goal scorers in the league from putting on a clinic.
Earlier today I spent 10 minutes with a friend debating how good of a goalie I think Mike Smith is, and could be. My friend is the kind of hockey fan that screams “SHOOT!!” when our team is on [...]