Lightning have traded F James Wright and D Mike Vernace to Florida in exchange for d-men Mike Kostka and Evan Oberg.

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"In the East, Tampa Bay is picked to complete what would be the upset of the playoffs thus far, as EA SPORTS has the Bolts eliminating the No. 1-seeded Capitals in seven games, while the Bruins get a measure of revenge for last year's historic ouster at the hands of the Flyers with a six-game win over Philadelphia."

The robots and geeks of the world are Lightning fans. ;)

check out adamlogan.net for a blog cast on tonights game.

"They have the ability to play better and we need them to play better. We'll provide them the right environment to get better, and we'll keep sticking with this for the time being."

Lightning have signed LW Chris Durno to a 1 year, 2 way contract as confirmed by Erik Erlendsson via twitter, "#TBLightning announce signing of free agent LW Chris Durno to a one-year, two-way contract."

You don't put your players around a system, you coach your system around the players.

Now the twist in the story is a power surge caused the circuit breaker to go belly up and keep doing so. By the time they reset everything...it was going to take way longer than 10 minutes to get the arena lit to 100% or something close to playable. I can hear it now...how fans of other teams could say this could only happen in New Jersey. I still remember to this day when this happened at MSG in 1994 during an Aerosmith concert. They were able to play on but their set was cut short a bit. Fans were compensated.

Now about 10pm was when my brother got a call from PSE&G. See my brother is a journeyman electrician in the state and well I really would not trust any electrical work without him looking at it first. The brother and several others got calls because they worked on the circuit breaker in question. By then, the game was pretty much going to be called anyway. It was more a question of when the lights would come back on. Basically as said brother quoted "10 minutes to reset that?....try at least a couple hours!"

Well sure enough about 11:30, the power came back at 100% of its original glory. As everyone knows now, the game will be resumed 6pm tomorrow evening at The Rock. It was good to see Tampa, New Jersey, and the NHL come up with an easy solution that made everyone happy.

The lesson to be learned here is really there is no embarrassment. Power spikes happen all the time. Remember that huge blackout a few years back? Just be thankful that the lights only dimmed. Imagine if the entire arena blacked out completely. I am just saying.

"The Lightning have signed LW Mitch Fritz to a one-year contract. He will be assigned to Norfolk." Fritz was with the Lightning a few years back before being signed in Long Island with the Islanders never making the starting lineup. He's a big guy and fights too much, think Konopka but huger, yes huger.

"Every time you go in, you have to work for it...But I think there's a spot there for me. I think it's my spot to lose. I just need to work hard and do my best."