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Three dash zero

It’s very early, but you have to like the fact that the Lightning have started 3-0 without the services of their best defenseman. Well, I suppose if you’re not a hockey fan, or if you are a hockey fan but not a Lightning fan, then you don’t HAVE to like it; but you’re free to like it if you want to. With the Rays season over, the Bucs crashing back to Earth last week, and…
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Current EventsSports

ESPN - Group led by MacLean agrees to buy Lightning - NHL

ESPN – Group led by MacLean agrees to buy Lightning – NHL WOW! and WOW! Excuse me, did I just say WOW! Maybe I’m just WAY, WAY out of the loop, but I had no idea this was in the offing. I’m of two minds about prior ownership. On one hand, they delivered the home team from it’s losing ways to an unimaginable championship. On the other, they claim poverty, won’t…
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The news from row S

If you walk up the stairs on the third level of the St. Pete Times Forum, you will find two seats right at the top, looking down the stairs from either side of the center handrail, seats 3 and 4, row S. This was where Beth watched her first live hockey game. Her first impression was, “there are a LOT of people here dad.” “Yeah, it’s great, nothing like Rays games, is…
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Working hard not to be distracted at work,

That mild, sick feeling in the pit of your stomach? Those mild tremors that resemble cold weather shivers? The feeling that your heart is racing out of control? That’s called anxiety. The hockey game tonight? That’s called game seven. From the Office of Handicapping and Prognostication; here are a few predictions for tonight’s game, 1. If the Lightning loose tonight, they will…
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Hockey night in Florida!

Barely two years removed from wretchedness, the Lightning are treating us with performances that can only be described with superlatives. As of right now they are the best team in the Eastern Conference, and only a game back from being the best in the entire league. I was joking with a friend that for an encore, the Rays would finish second to the Yankees and qualify for the playoffs as a wild…
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