The wait till Game 7 may be the longest wait you've had to deal with in the last 4 years of watching hockey. It'll be a nerve wracking 48 hours before the puck drops in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, so here are some stuff for you to read to pass the time.
Your Lightning links:
- Have the Lightning rattled Marc-Andre Fleury? (Puck Daddy)
- Video of Chris Conner's penalty shot fail in the game last night (Puck Daddy)
- The Lightning showed their desperation and their heart in the win last night (St. Petersburg Times)
- Could the on-fire Lightning be too much for the Pens to handle in Game 7? (Sports Illustrated)
The rest of your links after the jump...
- The Pens need to fix their unproductive power play in a hurry, or maybe start declining power plays awarded to them (Toronto Sun)
- The Lightning hold the special teams advantage in this series in case you have been sleeping this past two weeks (ProHockeyTalk)
- In the "needing all the help you can get" category, The Pensblog is excited that Jim Jimerson is singing the national anthem on Wednesday
- Lightning goaltending coach Frantz Jean is having a memorable first season in the NHL (Times and Transcript)
- Tampa Tribune beat writer Erik Erlendsson's son can't grow a beard since he's only 12, so he's wearing a Lightning-themed shirt until the Lightning get eliminated
- A set of 26 framed images on the 2004 Cup winning run called "Focused Passion" will be in the Tampa International Airport next year (Tampa Bay Business Journal)
Your links from around the NHL:
- Joe Thornton gets the OT winner for the Sharks last night over LA for the Sharks to move on to the second round (Fear the Fin)
- The Nashville Predators won their first playoff series ever (On the Forecheck)
- Niklas Lidstrom, Shea Weber and Zdeno Chara are your three Norris Trophy nominees (TSN)
- Bryan Bickell of the Chicago Blackhawks will miss the rest of the playoffs after undergoing surgery to his hand (TSN)
- The Flyers will have Mike Richards in the lineup for Game 7 (Globe and Mail)
- Mike Gillis complained about the disparity in penalty calls in the recent game between the Canucks and Blackhawks. James O'Brien wonders if he has a point? (ProHockeyTalk)
- Erik Erlendsson of the Tampa Tribune suggests that maybe Colin Campbell should step down as the NHL head disciplinarian
- Ever want to hear all 30 of the NHL's different goal horns? The Awl has you covered if you want to give them a listen
- The NHL hires former WNBA exec Val Ackerman to consult in how the NHL could be more supportive to women's ice hockey (Globe and Mail)
Video of the week: Former bolt Evgeni Artyukin gets in a fight with team Finland