You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry
Sorry, I was kind of in the Christmas spirit there, and its not freaking Santa that is coming into town, its the Tampa Bay Lightning. After making it through a tough road trip with more wins than losses, the Lightning finished off a brief homestand 2 and 0 over the Thanksgiving holiday. Last nights game was a [...]

My Likes And Dislikes To Date
While sitting, well mostly standing, and watching my Bolts lose yet another Shootout to the Las Angeles Kings, I decided that I would write about the things that I like and dislike about this season so far. So here goes… LIKE: Right off the bat, you have to like the play of Mr. 40 goals Steven Stamkos. [...]

Bolts Beat Phil Kessel…Up
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 [...]

I Keep Trying to Defend Him
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 [...]

Bolts Lose In Shootout, Again
In what is becoming a really alarming oddity, the Lightning lost last night 2-1 in a shootout, their 4th shootout loss this season.  If you combine that with the fact that we had the most shootout losses last year, and an alarming trend starts to surface. Besides being outshot by a hefty margin, 38 to 19, [...]