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Lightning lives after almost dying in third

May 21, 2016 general

Saturday, 5:45 a.m. Give up one goal, and it’s a nuisance. Yeah, Andrei Vasilveskiy lost his shutout. But that’s why heaven invented 4-0 leads. What’s the worry? Give up a second goal, and it’s a dilemma. Here come those dangerous Penguins again, scoring as quickly as a sneeze. Still, it’s going to be okay. Right? […]

Tagged as: Hockey, Lighting, Penguins, playoffs

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Lightning can’t stop Pittsburgh’s dangerous offense

May 19, 2016 general

Thursday, 5:30 a.m. Is this how it ends, in a hail of bullets, with the Lightning unable to match the offense of the Pittsburgh Penguins? Is this how the door closes, with a swarm of bees, with a goaltender desperately trying to swat the odds around from his face? Is this how the season closes, […]

Tagged as: Lightning, Pittsburgh, playoffs, Vasilevskiy

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Believing in the Lightning isn’t always easy

May 18, 2016 general

Wednesday, 6 a.m. Funny thing, faith. It fades in an out of tune like an AM radio signal. A team plays well, and the ride feels good, and you cannot contain yourself. Why, this team is terrific. This season is terrific. Your arms cannot spread wide enough to hold all of them. Why, there is […]

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Bolts win a game, but it doesn’t feel like enough

May 17, 2016 general

Tuesday, 6 a.m. Repeat it to yourself: Things are okay for the Tampa Bay Lighting. Really, they are. Keep reminding yourself that the Bolts won one game in Pittsburgh, which has always been the battle plan for hockey teams. Remember that the Lightning came from two goals behind. Chant that the next two games are […]

Tagged as: Lightning, Overtime, Penguins, playoffs

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Vasilevskiy can give the Lightning a huge lead

May 16, 2016 general

Sunday 6 a.m. It is his job now. It is his net. For the time being, it is his team. Imagine Andrei Vasilevskiy. Imagine the pressure. Imagine walking through the locker room and feeling the eyes follow you around the room. He is 21 years old, the age of a college junior, and one of […]

Tagged as: Goal, Lightning, Penguins, Vasilevskiy

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Ask Gary: What’s the price of delusion in baseball?

May 14, 2016 general

(Each week, the readers take over GarySheltonsports.com and play Ask Gary. They send in a question, or a couple, on Thursday night or Friday morning and we all talk about the world of sports.  Think of it as a radio show where you don’t have to be on hold. Join us and ask a question, make a comment […]

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Who would go into a Lightning Ring of Honor?

May 13, 2016 general

Friday, 6 a.m. Pictures the jerseys hanging from the rafters. Picture the fans pointing this number out and that one. Picture the shared stories. Consider the men. Consider the moments. Consider the memories. Think, if you will, about a Tampa Bay Lighting Ring of Honor. Oh, it doesn’t have to be in a circle around […]

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Drouin finds his place with the Lightning

May 1, 2016 general

Sunday, 6 a.m. Imagine being Jonathan Drouin. Imagine being lost, being abandoned, being forgotten. Imagine being home in a holdout to which the rest of the world paid little attention. Imagine hating the past, and questioning the future, and wondering about the present. Imagine no one in the league — no one — offering enough […]

Tagged as: Drouin, Holdout, Lightning, playoffs

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Lightning loses playoff opener to the Islanders

April 28, 2016 general

Thursday, 6 a.m. “It’s just one game.” “It’s a seven game series for a reason.” “We were in the same shape last year.” And so it went. All around the locker room of the Tampa Bay Lightning were the soft, disappointed sounds of the familiar cliches of a team that had finished second in a […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Islanders, Lightning, playoffs

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Killer is the death of the Red Wings’ season

April 22, 2016 general

Thursday, 6 a.m. He was watching the pregame show, because hours before he wins a game, what else is a guy supposed to do. He saw the images, and he listened to the rhetoric. Yeah, the announcers were saying: if you are going to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, you have to stop Nikita Kucherov […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Killorn, Lightning, Wings

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