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ECQF Game 4 preview: Pittsburgh Penguins (4) at Tampa Bay Lightning (5)
WHERE: St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FloridaWHEN: 7 PM EDT MEDIA: Sun Sports (cable), 970 WFLA (radio)OPPONENT COVERAGE: Pensburgh, The Pensblog, Let's Go Pens The story yesterday was the fact Chris Kunitz and Steve Downie were both suspended by the National Hockey League for one game. Both were...
Off Topic: In defense of Jim Joyce and the fallibility of on-field officials
About a year ago, I wrote a piece expressing disdain at NHL referees and linesmen, as well as their boss at the time. I labeled them Club Two-Minutes and slammed the pomposity, arrogance, and the lack of accountability among them. Yesterday in Major League Baseball, there was a little event in...
Lightning seek to melt Avalanche in Tampa (game preview)
WHERE: St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FloridaWHEN: 7:30 PM ESTMEDIA: Sun Sports (Cable), 620 WDAE (Radio) It's been just about a year since the Lightning and Avalanche last faced off at Times Palace, and for those who can't recall what happened -- a rather great game was ruined by referee's...
A day later...
Damian Cristodero at the Times reports that NHL official Stephen Walkom sees nothing wrong from last night: Stephen Walkom, the NHL's director of officiating, said the ruling that Lightning goaltender Mike Smith deliberately threw his stick to disrupt Milan Hejduk's shootout attempt on Thursday...
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