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Steven Stamkos and the Tampa Bay Lightning: Wake me up when it's over
So is anyone else tired of the mass hysteria and drama swirling around the Steven Stamkos deal? Poor Erik Erlendsson from the Tampa Tribune. That man has the patience of a saint. He's been answering the same questions over and over and over and over and over again about Stamkos for about a week now...
Season series finale; Capitals at Tampa Bay Lightning preview
WHERE: St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FloridaWHEN: 7 PM ESTMEDIA: Versus (Cable), 620 WDAE (radio)OPPONENT COVERAGE: Japers' Rink Slump. There, I said it and got it out of the way. It's the new It word regarding the Tampa Bay Lightning (or perhaps Steven Stamkos). John Romano came right out with it...
The profound silence of the Lightning executive hunt
Chris Botta, writing for NHL Fanhouse, broke the news yesterday that reports of Steve Yzerman's demise as a GM candidate in Tampa Bay have been greatly exaggerated. Over the past two weeks, there had been two online reports from separate sources, suggesting Yzerman was out: John Boruk of Comcast...
What they're saying about Jeffrey Vinik and Lightning ownership
Here's a collection of quotes from sources around the net and in the press regarding the Lightning sale to Jeff Vinik. Most fo the common reactiosn that were found were mostly about the departure of OK Hockey, and less so about the private man that is Jeffrey Vinik. If you have otehr thoughts, or...
Jeff Greene out as potential investor in the Tampa Bay Lightning
Only a day after we posted a reminder about the unsettled situation with ownership of the Tampa Bay Lightning franchise, the situation's unresolved status became further highlighted. Erik Erlendsson of the Tampa Tribune reported on his blog that investor Jeff Greene has dropped his bid to buy into...
With the media struggling, should fans worry?
A couple of weeks back, the Dallas Stars blog on Dallas News reported about Los Angeles Times and LA Daily News cutting coverage of the Los Angeles Kings in their paper. Oh, stories were still being written about the Kings, blog posts were going up... Just no reporters from the two papers was...
Locals and the NHL -- Times, Tribune fall down, go boom when it comes to league coverage
2 days before the NHL trade deadline with the local team leading the NHL, upon opening the paper and going to sports, what NHL coverage (general league stuff) can I find in addition to the usual mess that I find in the St. Petersburg Times? Nada. Zip. Zilch. Squat. There was no talk about...
Showboating
It wasn't aimed at the Tampa Bay Lightning directly or deliberately, it was aimed at the fact #50 was notched against them. That's about all I take from the where, when and why of Alex Ovechkin's goal celebration Thursday night at Times Palace. That also being said, is there a place for this in...
Too Much Fixation on a Non Issue
Down the stretch, with a team far from contention and a volatile off season to come (or at least Larry Brooks is trying to create the premise of one), I'm not surprised that it becomes tougher and tougher to write stories of relevance. Heck, I've been all but lost at times, trying to come up with...
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