Saturday, 3 a.m.

Another overtime led to another backward step for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL playoffs Friday night.

Lane Hutson guided the puck through a crowd of players at 2:09 of overtime for a 3-2 win for Montreal. The win gives the Canadiens a 2-1 lead with another home game on Sunday.

The Bolts continue to struggle to score in the playoffs. They got goals from Braydon Point and Brandon Hagel Frdiay night, but they were shot out in the third period.

Hagel's goal gave them a one-goal lead in the second period, but Montreal caught them in the third and then won their second overtime of the series in extra time.

Andrei Vasileveskiy stopped 26 of 29 shots.

Sunday's game will be at 7 p.m. at the Bell Centre.

Saturday, 4 a.m.

If the first day of the NFL was about hope, the second was about trust.

The Tampa Bay Bucs picked a pair of player who, well, aren’t exactly brand names. They were selections that left Bucs fans groaning in frustration.

First, the team bypassed more well known inside linebackers to take Josiah Trotter, a hard-hitting llinebacker with questions about his coverage ability.

After trading back with their third-round pick, they took Ted Hurst, a big wide receiver from a tiny school (Georgia State).

It was enough to leave observers unhappy.

With Trotter, the 46th pick, fans would have prefered to trade up three picks and take Jacob Rodriguez, or to take Jake Golday (who went 51st), C.J. Allen (53rd) or Anthony Hill (60th).

With Trotter, the 46th pick, fans would have prefered to trade up three picks for Jacob Rodriguez, or to take Jake Goldwyn (who went 51st), C.J. Allen (53rd) or Anthony Hill (60th).

Much of the frustration was because of the knocks on Trottter's coverage skills, an area where the Bucs have struggled.

Obviously, the team has done far more work on Trotter than on any of their critics, Still, teams do make mistakes.

Hurst, however, will remind you of how Bucs' general manager Jason Licht has often gone to smaller schools for offensive linemen.

Hurst has 127 catches for 1,95 yads over the last two seasonz.

Friday, 4 a.m.

Here's the thing to remember about Rueben Bain, the newest hope of the Tampa Bay Bucs

The Bucs don't care how long his arms are as long as they are wrapped about a quarterback.

The Bucs caught a falling star in Thursday night's NFL draft. At a spot where most analysts figured the Bucs would be sifting among the leftovers at the position -- Akheem Mesidor, Cashius Howell or Keldric Faulk had all been mentioned -- instead the Bucs picked Bain, who was one of the premier players in college football last season.

Bain was the ACC defensive payer of the year last year. He was an all-American and the star defender in the Hurricanes' national championship run. He won the Ted Hendrix Award. He had 9.5 sacks and 15.5 tackles for loss. He had 83 quarterback pressures.

Almost all mock drafts predicted he would go in the top 10.

So why did he slide?

Evedently, much of the talk was about his short arms, as if his fingers barely emerged from a short-sleeve shirt. There was criticism he didn't run a 40-yard dash. He had the fatal car wreck in his past.

Production? No one seemed to knock that.

Oh, sure, Bain has questions to answer. All rookies do. The Bucs have lacked a dominant pass-rusher for years. Unless the rush is better, it's hard to envision the Bucs being better.

But when you think of the rushers the Bucs have taken a shot at in recent years, he seems like a good bet. Noah Spence? Joe Tryon-Shoyinka? Chris Braswell? Logan Hall? Gaines Adams? It's been like playing darts in the dark.

Drafting a pass rusher isn't like buying a suit. You only worry about arm length if. your nit-picking. It's about production. Bain had plenty of that.

Hey, the Bucs didn't cure themselves Thursday night.

But they toook a step.