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After a hot start, the Lightning have faded in th standings with players in game-shape rising to new heights, and lockout-idled standard bearers looking hobbled and spent.

2012 NHL Lockout: Player/owners meeting will include Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik

What if the NHL and NHLPA threw a party and I went and watched the Syracuse Crunch instead?

I bet you're getting sick and tired of these lockout posts. I know I am. I'm sick and tired of the sheer stupidity of two groups of reasonably smart people being unable to even get into the same...

The financial divide between teh NHL and NHLPA is narrowing, but the hyperbole is ratcheting up. Marty does not want to fade away, Roloson goes back to school, Luongo rumors, and Caps fans don't quite feel like shopping right now.

Months of posturing and rhetoric and hard-line stances have given away to what should have been a starting point in labor negotiation talks between the NHL and NHLPA. So what changed that led to the league dropping it's hardline stance?

Day 23. I think it's been three weeks. The days all blur together, so it's hard to say. Could be Day 2 or Day 377, for all I know. I'm delirious in this long, dry hockey desert. I see sand...

The NHL may be locked out, but there's still hockey to be had. The Syracuse Crunch, the Lightning's American Hockey League affiliate began training camp on Friday, Sept. 28 and will be playing...

Introducing the Syracuse Crunch defensemen from a statistical point of view.

As the NHL lockout continues, more kooky diary posts will go up.