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

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

 

Haha unfortunately trrrruuuuuueeeeee

 

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

 

Is anyone else regularly muting the NBC broadcast?

 

My volume is turned way down.

 

Welcome to the nhl kid

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

We are not watching the same game

 

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...

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Good PK.

 

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.

 

Anyone see where Sergy got to on that play??

 

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.

 

Next game...

 

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.

 

well there's something

 

No shutout! Thank you Miller