Killorn

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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Lightning suddenly isn’t such a scoring machine

October 29, 2015 general

Thursday, 11:38 p.m. Think of the weapons, lethal and dangerous. Think of the skill, fast and fleet. Think of the past, goals and glory. Now, think of the goal posts with cobwebs on them. Think of the scoreboard that rarely moves. Think of the sticks that are largely ornamental. Think of a zero in eight […]

Tagged as: Avalanche, Cooper, Killorn, Lightning

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Lightning scoring comes up dry as Bishop sits out

June 11, 2015 general

Thursday, 12:22 a.m. You can sum it up like this: There was a Ben Bishop-sized hole in the Tampa Bay Lightning Wednesday night. To most fans of the Tampa Bay Lightning, that’s how this one will be remembered. Period. It doesn’t matter that rookie Andrei Vasilevskiy played well. It doesn’t matter that Chicago got only […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Blackhawks, Johnson, Killorn, Kucherov, Lightning, Stamkos, Stanley Cup, Vasilevskiy

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Blackhawks teach Lightning a valuable lesson

June 4, 2015 general

Thursday, 12:23 a.m. TAMPA The first lesson was painful. The first lesson was costly. The first lesson, if it is not corrected, is going to sting for a while. If this Stanley Cup Finals series is really the wise men against the smart-alecks, if it really is the savvy old vets against the kids-who-just-got-here, then […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Blackhawks, Chicago, Killorn, Lightning, Stanley Cup, Tampa Bay

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The Lightning is going to the Stanley Cup Finals!

May 30, 2015 general

Saturday, 12:07 a.m. Hello, Lord Stanley. It’s us again. You remember, don’t you? We’re the fans with suntans, the fans with mosquito bites. We’re the fans with lovebugs in the grill of the Zamboni. We’re the fans who yell “score, ya’ll.” We’re the fans of the Tampa Bay Lightning. And we’re back. How you’ve been, […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Cooper, Killorn, Lightning, Lord Stanley, Palat, Stanley Cup

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Rangers history doesn’t bother Lightning in Game 7

May 27, 2015 general

Wednesday, 4:07 p.m. Sure, you can talk about the Rangers in Game Sevens if you want. On the other hand, you can talk about the Ming Dynasty. You can talk about how well Henrik Lundqvist has played. And you can talk about the O.K. Corral. You can talk about how other teams wilted at the […]

Tagged as: Cooper, Hedman, Killorn, Lightning, playoffs, Rangers

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Once again, Johnson the biggest Bolt of them all

May 6, 2015 general

TAMPA He is bigger now than he was five minutes ago. In another five, he will be larger still. He is faster now, more skilled, more instinctive. The puck loves him. The net loves him. The ice itself loves him. He is Tyler Johnson, and if they had not already named this sport ice hockey, […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Cooper, Johnson, Killorn, Lightning, Montreal, playoffs, Stamkos

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Tampa Bay triumphs, forces Game 7

April 28, 2015 general

Tuesday, 1:18 a.m. It will help if you don’t worry about breathing. Hunger? It can wait. Thirst? You can be thirsty later. Bathroom? That’s why they have intermissions, right? The Tampa Bay Lightning is heading toward another Game Seven. Time to break out the white knuckles and chew on the fingernails. The Lightning forced Game […]

Tagged as: Garrison, Johnson, Killorn, Lightning, Palat, playoffs, Red Wings

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Lightning finally pulls one out of the fire

March 7, 2015 general

Saturday, 11:10 p.m. TAMPA Think of Joe Montana in the final moments, the ball in his hand a deficit on the scoreboard. No one came from behind like Joe Cool. Think of Michael Jordan as the clock was running out, driving to the basket as the game belonged to him. Everyone else turned into a […]

Tagged as: clutch, come from behind, Hedman, Jordan, Killorn, Lightning, Montana, Nicklaus, record home win, Vasilevski

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