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Lightning loses yet again as season slips away

February 3, 2017 general

Friday, 6 a.m. The Tampa Bay Lightning is repeating itself. And it wasn’t good in the first place. Check out Thursday night’s 5-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators. They started with a lead. They fell behind. They got off only 21 shots. And they lost their second game in a four-game home stand (and third […]

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Lightning resembles Rays in disappointing loss

February 1, 2017 general

Wednesday, 4 a.m. The Rayification of the Tampa Bay Lightning continued Thursday night at Amalie Arena. Once again, the Lightning struggled as if it was going nowhere. Once again, the defense was leaky. Once again, the goaltending was suspect. Once again, the offense didn’t produce much, getting off only 13 shots the last two periods. […]

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Ask Gary: Fans weary of Rays’ business model

January 28, 2017 general

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Tampa Bay, once again, is a cradle of losing

January 27, 2017 general

Friday, 4 a.m. Here in the wilderness, we wait. Crickets chirp. Coyotes howl. Tumbleweeds blow past. A funeral march plays. Somewhere in the distance, we hear there are playoffs, but we’ll have to take your word for it. In other cities, confetti falls. In Tampa Bay, it is the sky. Boy, are we bad. How […]

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Another penalty, another overtime loss for Bolts

January 27, 2017 general

Friday, 3 a.m. The Tampa Bay Lightning has lost so much lately, it’s starting to do re-runs. Take the team’s 2-1 loss to the Florida Panthers Thursday night. Darned if it didn’t seem as if you had seen it before. There was the one goal in regulation. There was the overtime penalty to Tyler Johnson. […]

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Johnson leads the Bolts to win over Blackhawks

January 25, 2017 general

Wednesday, 4 a.m. If the Tampa Bay Lightning is going to be able to climb over its competitors, it’s going to need a little help. Like, maybe, from 2015. And, hey, didn’t you used to be Tyler Johnson? Johnson, the talented but oft-injured forward of the Tampa Bay Lightning, let the league know he was […]

Tagged as: injuries, Johnson, Lightning

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Ask Gary: The 2011 draft was supposed to save the Rays

January 21, 2017 general

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Random thoughts: Watson is Clemson’s best-ever

January 8, 2017 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. You can spend days arguing the best player in University of Alabama history: Joe Namath, Johnny Musso, Dwight Stephenson, John Hannah, Julio Jones, Amari Cooper, Ken Stabler. You can spend seconds on Clemson’s: Deshaun Watson. – The good news for Chuck Pagano is that he isn’t fired. The bad news is that […]

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Ask Gary: Could this Lightning season be costly?

January 7, 2017 general

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Bolts give up another half dozen in defeat

January 6, 2017 general

Friday, 4 a.m. Perhaps they could not accept the horror of giving up a half-dozen goals on consecutive nights. Perhaps they could not swallow giving up four goals on Nashville’s first eight shots. Perhaps they could justify being blown out in their own building. For whatever reason, the Tampa Bay Lightning had trouble swallowing a […]

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