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Step Seven: Lick this! Bolts rally to beat Boston

May 5, 2018 general

Friday, 3 a.m. Maybe  you  are offended by the tongue. Who wouldn’t be? Tongues are particularly loathsome, after all. Certainly, Brad Marchand, sleazy guy, the lizard king of the NHL, wants you to be offended by the tongue. That’s why he licked Ryan Callahan with it. When a hockey team is being outplayed in the […]

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Cooper masterminded Bolts’ turnaround

May 4, 2018 general

Friday, 4 a.m. His face is Andrei Vasilevskiy’s. The eyes gaze ahead, missing nothing but giving nothing away. Like Vasilevskiy, there is a fire burning inside, but darned if you can see the smoke. His voice is Steven Stamkos’. Always calm, always analytical. Maybe there are times he wants to snap, but he hides those […]

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Step six: Bolts take lead in series with win in Boston

May 3, 2018 general

Thursday, 4 a.m. If the members of the Tampa Bay Lightning live a bad life and die, it is assured what hell will look like. Frankly, it will look a lot like Boston. For most of this franchise’s history, the city has been the personal torture chamber of the Lighting. Think of it as a […]

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In their biggest game, Bolts need Stamkos again

May 2, 2018 general

Wednesday, 3 a.m. Once again, the other players of the Tampa Bay Lightning turn their heads toward his cubicle. Once again, they wait for him to make a pass, make a shot, make a goal. Once again, they look to Steven Stamkos to lead the way. On the Lightning, he has become the second-best scoring […]

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Lightning get up off the floor against Bruins

May 1, 2018 general

Tuesday, 4 a.m. It still isn’t the perfect situation. The numbers are not stacked in their favor. The series is tied at 1-1, but that gives an edge beyond the game score to the visitors. Still, the Tampa Bay Lightning showed a little push-back on Monday night. And, yes, their pulse is still beating. The […]

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Step four: Lightning send the Devils packing

April 22, 2018 general

Sunday, 4 a.m. Next? Boston? Toronto? If the Tampa Bay Lightning plays like this, with a purpose on defense, with solid goaltending, with offense from throughout its roster, does it matter? The Lightning beat the Devils again Saturday, winning its opening series 4-1 over a team that had swept all three regular-season games. It wasn’t […]

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Miller has made the Lightning deal pay off

April 20, 2018 general

Friday, 3 a.m. In the world of headlines, he was the other guy. It was the trading deadline, and as we all know, the Tampa Bay Lightning wanted a heaping helping of Ryan McDonagh. He was the target, the object of the team’s affections. He was the reason the Bolts gave up so much of […]

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Step Three: Lightning one win from advancing

April 19, 2018 general

Thursday, 4 a.m. The Tampa Bay Lightning is going home. And once there, they will try to send the New Jersey Devils home for the off-season. The Bolts moved within one game of advancement Wednesday night, beating the Devils 3-1 with a strong penalty kill. New Jersey was threatening to tie the series at two […]

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Penalties allow a series-saving surge by Devils

April 17, 2018 general

Tuesday, 4 a.m. What? Did you think it was going to be easy? Did you think the Lightning would skate a few laps, wave to the crowd and proceed straight to the parade? Of course you didn’t. As disappointing as Monday night’s 5-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils might have been, it certainly wasn’t […]

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Step Two: Lightning clobbers Devils once again

April 15, 2018 general

Sunday, 3 a.m. For most of the year, it was among the cities where the doubts about this Tampa Bay Lighting team was born. In other places, for instance, they might have thought of the Bolts as skilled, as speedy, as sizzling. But in New Jersey, well, after three straight wins in the regular season, […]

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