http://www.sportstalkflorida.com/in...wrong-with-the-lightning/#w8T6kFt1tcs2UHtb.99“That game coming back from a tough road trip is always hard,†St. Louis said. “Obviously we need to fight the mental part of the game a little bit, be a little more resilient, a little more determined. I think our early success this season, I think it is haunting us a little bit. We almost had it too easy too quick. I don’t want to take away from any of our wins, but we didn’t have to earn them as much our power play was strong and we were putting away teams early in the game. They were easier games, so to speak, and we played some hard games here on this road trip. We realized how hard you have to play in this league if you want to win, but I felt that we stayed with it in the third and played for each other and turned it around a little bit and got a point out of it and that’s a positive.â€
Once again, with the exception of Hedman.
The kid has been nothing short of amazing for us. Absolute stud. But we need Marty and Stammer to show up if we're gonna win. Especially MSL, the offense is off when he's not playing well.
As someone said above, he may be the guy with the injury. He hates to miss games, he's probably playing through something...
Edit: Salo is Finnish. Scandinavians FTW.
Him or Teddy. Both of them seem off. You just really notice it with MSL because he's never, in his life, played this poorly. Teddy, you never know. Maybe he's thinking about Shawshank Redemption and room service desserts...
It's definitely weird seeing St. Louis play this bad. I just hope he breaks out of this little "slump" sooner rather then later.
Lecavalier may be still fighting a problem with his ankle... Everyone is playing so bad in our top 6 (except Conacher), you would think they were all battling through an injury.
Don't mix your Scandies or South Americans... it's like calling a Texan a New Yorker...
That was a pretty weak fight though...
You think either of the two calls on Lee with legit last night?
phrase of the day: zone entry
If the 2nd call on Lee wasn't legit, I don't know what is. That's a penalty every time.
I still think that penalty for roughing to Hedman was complete BS. He got charged at out of nowhere without possession of the puck.
Is there any other resources besides ESPN for attendance figures? For the past two seasons ESPN's attendance figures have shown sold out (19,204) Lightning games being 97.2% full. There were periods of times last season they had the totals numbers incorrect, anyway I don't trust there figures. And yes, I realize I'm likely the only freak that even pays attention to these things.
Oh, absolutely! And I can't stand when a player does something like what Cole did and then doesn't answer the bell when the time comes. Emelin is another player like that. If I remember correctly, he had some kind of facial surgery that makes getting hit in the face more dangerous than normal, but if he can't get punched then don't play that edgy physical style.
Is there any other resources besides ESPN for attendance figures? For the past two seasons ESPN's attendance figures have shown sold out (19,204) Lightning games being 97.2% full. There were periods of times last season they had the totals numbers incorrect, anyway I don't trust there figures. And yes, I realize I'm likely the only freak that even pays attention to these things.