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 that doesn’t count last nights ass kicking.  With 9 teams within 12 points of each other (from 6th to 14th in the East) every game is a must win, but those games against teams that are we are fighting with are even more important.
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As everyone knows by now, the Bolts have 4 players representing their team in Vancouver.  God knows why Steven Stamkos isn’t among those players, but representing our team and their respective countries are Andrej Meszaros, Mattias Ohlund, Ryan Malone and Antero Niittymaki.
In the USA’s first game a 3 to 1 victory for the good guys, Ryan Malone put home the US’s 3rd goal in typical Malone fashion, grinding in front of the net.  He put home a power play goal that he hit at least 3 seperate times before it finally went in the net.   His line of Joe [...]

Coming off of a 4 game win streak, and a streak that saw the Bolts get points in 9 out of 11 games, the Bolts have proceeded to lose 2 straight games.
Thursday’s nights game vs the Boston Bruins was a real doozy.  The Bolts came out very flat, went down 4 to 0 in the first period.  Antero Niittymaki was then pulled for Mike Smith who hadn’t played in 14 games.  Smith let in another goal to put the count at 5 to 0.  At that point me and my brother left the Forum.  I rarely leave games early, but [...]