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Tuesdays with Dani: Lightning are still in this playoff race (for now)

Are the Lightning going to be sellers or buyers at the trade deadline this season? Right now, it's too early to tell. Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun debate this topic on their daily debate on ESPN. Talk is that there is interest in Ryan Malone and pending UFA's Pavel Kubina and Dominic Moore. LeBrun says he spoke with Yzerman yesterday morning and as of now, Yzerman still believe their in this and will see how the next few games play out.

"Our team is winning," Yzerman told ESPN.com. "My approach is that if there’s any deal that potentially can be done which makes our team better now or a better team in the future that’s worth doing, I’m prepared to do it. But at this point, nothing has made sense from my point of view."


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Tuesdays with Dani: Post-ASG Links

It's been a week without hockey. I'm not sure how you got through it, but personally I watched hours upon hours of glorious tennis, but there was still this nagging feeling of something missing.

If you did catch the skills competition, perhaps you caught Steven Stamkos going three for three on the shootout elimination challenge to win the event. Since he has gone 0-for-10 during the shootout the past two seasons, it should make you say "Stammer, why can't we see this more often?"

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Tuesdays with Dani: Injuries keep piling up

There are currently nine players out currently with injury for the Lightning, with Dana Tyrell being the latest addition to the injury team. But sometimes with hardship comes great quotes from coaches, like this gem from Boucher:

"The hockey gods," Boucher said, "are whipping us left and right."

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Tuesdays with Dani: Stamkos first to hit 30 goal mark this season

I would start this intro about how the two teams playing tonight faced off last year in the Eastern Conference final and now are at polar opposite of the Eastern Conference standings, but instead let's talk about how Helene Elliott of the Los Angeles Times has Steven Stamkos as one of her pluses in her pluses and minuses article, citing Stamkos being the first player to reach the 30 goal mark this season.

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Once again, the hockey family rallies for fallen players


One thing that people who aren't hockey fans don't get is that the hockey community is one big, extended, not-necessarily-always-happy family. They tend to look at the most brutish and violent aspects of the game we love and form a less-than-flattering opinion of those who play it as well as those who follow it as maladjusted, knuckle-dragging, cement-headed sociopaths with an insatiable lust for gore and mayhem.

And it thoroughly mystifies them that the only professional sport that openly condones any kind of fighting is also the only one where opponents line up after a hard-fought playoff series and shake hands. They fail to understand that the love for the sport itself that binds those in the hockey community together is ultimately stronger than any loyalties to individual factions that might temporarily divide us and that even if we don't always like each other, there is a deeper-rooted respect for one another.

The spirit of that unity is never on better display...unfortunately...than when tragedy strikes. Such is the case in the wake of recent severe spinal injuries suffered by Minnesota high school players Jack Jablonski and Jenna Privette.

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Happy thoughts for Lightning fans

I wanted to write a story about the Lightning that wasn't depressing. Because it's the middle of winter and the sun's been hiding (here in Nashville, anyway), and because it's the December-January mid-season lull when it all starts to become a grind, even for the fans. And because watching the games and reading the post-game analyses has gotten a bit depressing all on its own regardless of what's going on in the world.

I sat and I thought. And I thought and I sat. And, hey, a new year is coming. 2012. The winter solstice has passed. The nights aren't going to be getting longer anymore--or at least for another six months. The holiday trading freeze is over. Anything can happen.

So I'm going to ignore all the bad news for now--just for now--and focus on things that can make me happy in the middle of these doldrums. As always, your results may vary.

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Tuesdays with Dani: St. Louis returns to practice with the team

Great news about Martin St. Louis tonight. NHL.com writes that St. Louis traveled with the team to San Jose today and returned to practice with the team. He wore a full cage during the drills today at the HP Pavilion but there is no timetable yet to whether he'll be back in the lineup tomorrow or on Friday in Colorado.

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Tuesdays with Dani: Guy Boucher is now experienced

Psssst. Did you hear that I can now call myself experienced? (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Every time Michael Farber writes, I just want to share how well he writes with anyone who will care. With the two firings of coaches in the Southeast Division, he takes a look at what happened, the back story on the new coaches and a look at the other two coaches in the division.

With all this turnover in our division, it seems a bit strange that Guy Boucher now has the longest tenure out of the group. What was his response to being told this? "That’s what I hear," Boucher said. "I’m so experienced now."

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