GDT: 1/30/19 - 8:00PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Pittsburgh

[Stormbreaker]

I'd like to see Miller get some top 6 time.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

It's easy for them to say to themselves that the time off is the reason for everything.

Haha unfortunately trrrruuuuuueeeeee

 

[rangerrat]

Just checked our schedule we have 6 more games on NBC/NBCSN fml

. I am frigg n sick of Eddie O and his Penguin Cheerleading!!

 

[TeslaCoilFan]

Is anyone else regularly muting the NBC broadcast?

 

[Stormbreaker]

Is anyone else regularly muting the NBC broadcast?

My volume is turned way down.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

Welcome to the nhl kid

 

[Stormbreaker]

. I am frigg n sick of Eddie O and his Penguin Cheerleading!!

We have 3 consecutive games on NBCSN next month Kings, Rangers, Bruins

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

I think we can fit a few more guys in that penalty box

 

[RussianGuyovich]

The penalty wheel goes to the lightning and here is my shocked face

 

[xteesy]

Nah. All we need to do is bench Girardi. Sergachev has actually been okay on the right with Coburn.

Hedman-Strålman
McDonagh-Cernak
Coburn-Sergachev

That could work.

We are not watching the same game

 

[Fabiobest]

We've to lose all the advantage we've in the standing...because I don't want to have the chance to meet them in the first round...

 

[rangerrat]

We have 3 consecutive games on NBCSN next month Kings, Rangers, Bruins

Sat nite against Rangers already!! OMG sound will be off for sure!!

 

[TeslaCoilFan]

We are not watching the same game

Not in this game, I was referring to previous games when Sergachev was paired with Coburn, they seemed to be developing a pretty decent chemistry.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

“Joseph gains the zone”
*gets excited*
“...Passes to the trailer...”
*pants tighter*
“...it’s girardi”
*depression*

 

[Hint1k]

We've to lose all the advantage we've in the standing...because I don't want to have the chance to meet them in the first round...

We play against Pens only if play-off starts right now. By the end of the season that probably going to be Columbus.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

Sorry but this pens team is not scary at all and I would absolutely enjoy facing them in the playoffs.

 

[Fabiobest]

We play against Pens only if play-off starts right now. By the end of the season that probably going to be Columbus.

I really hope you're right.
Because it'll be terrible play @ Pens, during the PO, with these conditions...

 

[TeslaCoilFan]

Good PK.

 

[Hint1k]

Sorry but this pens team is not scary at all and I would absolutely enjoy facing them in the playoffs.

Pens and Caps are heavy Cup favorites. They won it 3 times out 3 in the recent years. We have better regular seasons (last two years). But regular games are meaningless.

 

[rangerrat]

Anyone see where Sergy got to on that play??

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Is anyone else regularly muting the NBC broadcast?

It's a paradox, really, and it's like this with baseball fans these days as well it seems. There's supposed to be something, you know, special about having your team in a national broadcast window, but then you actually watch the game and you're left to wonder about "why are these announcers so ignorant" and "what's with all the bells and whistles" and other stuff that, really, isn't actually necessary in the broadcast to begin with.

I mean, it's been like this for several years from our POV. I grew disillusioned with NBC vis-a-vis the Lightning after the entire broadcast crew and studio crew blamed us for the Flyers 1-3-1 protest several years ago. That was nonsense of the highest order. I don't generally like defense-first tactics as much as the next guy but if you've got a problem breaking it down, that's your problem; the protest was silly and blaming it all on us was ridiculous, as far as I'm concerned. But I digress - maybe it's a sign of how easy it is to watch games today from all around the league compared to the past, but the whole appeal of national television is long gone for me. Frankly, I wouldn't want the Lightning to be on an NBC Game of the Week broadcast; I don't generally enjoy the idea of sitting down to watch Lightning hockey at 12:30pm on a Sunday. And so, once again this year, I'm more than happy to see us side-stepping that particular landmine. May it continue.

 

[T REX]

When did Trotz sign with Pittsburgh?

Next game...

 

[TeslaCoilFan]

Aaaargh! Cernak got a solid shot in with a nice juicy rebound and there was NO ONE in front of the net to knock it in.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

well there's something

 

[Stormbreaker]

No shutout! Thank you Miller