Bishop

This time, the Lightning finds plenty of power

December 26, 2015 general

Saturday, 10:55 p.m. This time, there was power to the power play. This time, the goal was plenty wide enough. This time, the Lightning took advantage of its opportunities. It’s amazing the difference one game can make. In its previous loss to Vancouver, the Lightning was one-for-10 on its power play. Against Columbus, however, Tampa […]

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Unlikely trio leads Lightning past Ottawa

December 21, 2015 general

Monday, 6 a.m. As Butch said to Sundance: Who are those guys? This time, it was the Ottawa Senators who must have been saying that after an unknown line of “who’s he” guys did them in. Mike Angelidis? Mike Blunden? Jonathan Marchessault? Who are those guys? For a night, they were the new Triplets. It […]

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Tampa Bay keeps losing games…and players

December 12, 2015 general

Saturday, 10:53 p.m. Sometimes, it’s hard to see which is happening faster — the Tampa Bay Lightning losing games or losing players. The Lightning dropped a 2-1 decision to the Washington Caps Saturday night, and their record fell to 14-13-3. The team has now lost 67 man-games to injury this year. “I’m speechless this keeps […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Caps, Kucherov, Lightning

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For a night, the Lightning looks familiar

December 11, 2015 general

Friday, 12:38 a.m. Okay, no one speaks too soon. But we might have a sighting at the elusive Tampa Bay Lightning. Finally. The Lightning certainly looked enough like last year’s team in a 4-1 bashing of Ottawa Saturday night. Nikita Kucherov was scoring, and the Triplets were reunited, and Ben Bishop was on his game. […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Kucherov, Lighting, Senators

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Lightning showing signs of life…finally

November 21, 2015 general

Saturday, 11:38 p.m. Do you dare to hope that they finally have returned from the desert? Do you dare believe that the scoring has returned, and the winning along with it? Do you dare think that Steven Stamkos will score enough to make up for all the missing forwards? Do you dare dream that the […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Ducks, Lightning, Stamkos

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Bishop finally gets enough goals to win

November 13, 2015 general

  Friday, 12:17 a.m. It was beginning to look as if it were personal, as if Ben Bishop has somehow offended the locker room and the players refused to score for him. It was beginning to look as if every other goaltender in the league had better support, better luck, better karma. It was beginning […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Johnson, Lightning, Slump, Stamkos

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Accepting blame is a part of sports

October 16, 2015 general

Friday, 6 a.m. A great many players will fight you to their last drop of blood. A great many players will injure themselves in the effort. They will twist and contort and expend their last drop of energy. What they can not do is admit their shortcomings. Ever. For some athletes, there is no mea […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Buc;s, Dilfer, Johnson, Lightning

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Penalty kill is murder on the Lightning

October 15, 2015 general

Friday, 12 a.m. Yes, it’s still early. But an inability to kill could end up being the death of the Tampa Bay Lightning. An ineffective penalty kills led to the second consecutive defeat by the Lightning Thursday night, a 5-3 loss to the Dallas Stars in which the Bolts gave up another two power play […]

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The Lightning’s next play? Re-signing Steven Stamkos

June 17, 2015 general

Wednesday, 4:43 Tampa Early afternoon, and Steven Stamkos should have been thinking about the game. It was a few hours from the scheduled drop of the puck, after all, and Stamkos was moving around the locker room. He should have been checking to time to see how long before it was time to put on […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Cooper, Johnson, Lightning, Stamkos, Yzerman

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Lightning nets nothing as Chicago captures Cup

June 16, 2015 general

Tuesday, 1:07 a.m. For the first time in 270 days, they are out of tomorrows. For the first time in 108 games, time has expired on them. A season ran out for the Tampa Bay Lightning Monday night in Chicago. The Bolts lost a 2-0 game to the Chicago Blackhawks, finishing their question for the […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Blackhawks, Johnson, Lightning, Stamkos, Stanley Cup

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