"Wake up! There's been a slaughter here!"

by John Fontana on Jan 28, 2006 4:40 PM EST in Game Previews

On the day the Pirates invaded downtown Tampa, a few hundred miles to the north, the Tampa Bay Lightning invaded Philadelphia and pillaged the injury riddled Flyers...

Sean Burke registered the Lightning's 2nd consecutive shutout and Freddie Modin scored a hat trick as the Lightning continue their streak -- now 5-0-1 in the last 6 with 11 points -- with a new found passion in play.

One can easily point to the fact the Lightning faced Roberto Luongo and Martin Brodeur on consecutive games and Antero Niitymaki landed himself in a pile of do-do having to face a frustrated Lightning offense that had produced 83 shots over the span of those two games and only scored 3 goals total. In this instance the Lightning piled on 30 shots -- converting on six. Three of which were on the power play.

Martin St. Louis had 2 assists, Pavel Kubina notched 3 and rookie Ryan Craig had a goal and an assist.

All in all, it was a pillaging fo the Flyers in this matinee matchup.... The Lightning nw stand at 58 points...

Evgeny Artyukhin was the reason the Lightning opened scoring, driving hard at Antero. Niitymakii made the initial save but with a crowd around the net and Antero out of position, Dan Boyle (rumored replacement defensiveman for Team Canada at the Turin Olympics) capitalized on the loose puck... This kid is just as Balls-to-the-wall as Freddie Modin has been in his tenure witht he Lightning, if not more so.

Daryl Sydor went down with an injury however - and I admit ignorance in knowing what the injury was as the WMOR broadcast of the game absolutely reeked.

The Run continues...

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Sydor took a deflected hard shot off of Burke’s stick. Looked like a cut lip, but he was in great pain, so there may be more damage. It required scraping the blood off the ice, but Sydor hobbled off on his own.

With a few exceptions, the Lightning spent a vast amount of time in the Flyer’s end, and won most of the scrums in the corners, which I love to see. The Flyers were battling until that fifth goal, at which point it looked like the Wachovia Center started to empty.

by Mike on Jan 28, 2006 6:31 PM EST reply actions

Medical personnel called it a severe facial laceration, it took 70 stitches to close. It look very serious on the broadcast and it took two players and the trainer to get him up & off the ice.

http://bolts.tbo.com/lightning/MGB6YXTO0JE.html

by missK on Jan 28, 2006 10:42 PM EST reply actions