GDT: 5/10/21 - 7:00PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Florida

[PRZ45MD]

I disagree with placing Colton on a top line facing top checkers and D pair in a series w/o last change.

 

[AndreRoy]

What a heart warming interview with Joseph. I love talking about totally unrelated social issues when you’re team is floundering & looks as if it’s ready to play only 4 more games.

Good for him & Walcott & everyone else who’s made it to the big show. I just wish we’d look at it as someone making their NHL debut, rather than filtering down to the color of his skin. A person is a person, enough of this. Shame on the those robotic reporters as well. Original

Especially when those so-called “social issues” are imaginary. Shut up, play hockey, and stop spreading harmful myths and propaganda.

 

[Antiramie]

Weird that they asked the Bolts player who's been most vocal about racial injustice about being part of a potentially historic event in sports.

Especially when those so-called “social issues” are imaginary. Shut up, play hockey, and stop spreading harmful myths and propaganda.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

This was a terrible game to watch, but hopefully this little moment will make some sort of positive impact to some young viewer

Jo mentioned looking up to Iginla and Georges Laraque as a kid and Wally mentioned Iginla. Neither player will probably have those kind of careers, but both are still great representatives of the Lightning and Crunch.

 

[The Gongshow]

If Goodrow can't go, I'd go buckwild with the lines:

Colton - Point - Kucherov

Stamkos - Gourde - Coleman

Killorn - Johnson - Palat

Maroon - Cirelli - Joseph

When in doubt

Stamkos - Point - Kuch

 

[Antiramie]

I just really want to see Colton get a shot with the big boys.

 

[AndreRoy]

This was a terrible game to watch, but hopefully this little moment will make some sort of positive impact to some young viewer

Jo mentioned looking up to Iginla and Georges Laraque as a kid and Wally mentioned Iginla. Neither player will probably have those kind of careers, but both are still great representatives of the Lightning and Crunch.

Completely disagree. “The right direction” for a hockey team is the one that wins hockey games, not the one that checks meaningless demographic boxes, and people basing their opinion of the right direction or the players they look up to solely on the color of their skin is the problem, not any sort of solution.

A real hockey player would be pissed his team played like shit and lost, not happy because it fulfilled some pointless quota. The only black trio worth celebrating in hockey is three pucks in the opposing net.

 

[Bolt32]

When in doubt

Stamkos - Point - Kuch

If Stamkos and Kucherov come back in time of the series and we seemed like we cant generate crap. Just throw them together and tell them to go crazy. No one is stopping that line. Our 2nd -4th line will struggle badly, but our first line would tear shit up. It may get our battered corpse of a team a win or two in this series.

 

[Zwui21]

This was a terrible game to watch, but hopefully this little moment will make some sort of positive impact to some young viewer

Jo mentioned looking up to Iginla and Georges Laraque as a kid and Wally mentioned Iginla. Neither player will probably have those kind of careers, but both are still great representatives of the Lightning and Crunch.

I don't want to get into "social discussions", but you americans are obsessed with "races". Jesus christ, wanna solve racism and make it stop? Stop pointing out everyone's skin color as if it mattered, because by doing so you make it matter. And it shouldn't. When looking at the Lightning starting lineup, you should see three Lightning players, not three black Lightning players. Stop seeing people by their skin tone, start seeing everybody as fellow human beings.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

some real spicy takes by the elite non-racists in here. cool. cool cool cool

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

I don't want to get into "social discussions", but you americans are obsessed with "races". Jesus christ, wanna solve racism and make it stop? Stop pointing out everyone's skin color as if it mattered, because by doing so you make it matter. And it shouldn't. When looking at the Lightning starting lineup, you should see three Lightning players, not three black Lightning players. Stop seeing people by their skin tone, start seeing everybody as fellow human beings.

Not sure if this was directed at my comments or just in general, but the players answering the questions are Canadians and talking about looking up to other Canadian players. Mathieu Joseph has wrote about facing racism in hockey while growing up outside Montreal in the past. So, obviously not just an American problem here.

We all want to be able to see ourselves in those we idolize, whatever way that is. A whole generation of NHL goalies came out of Quebec because of the impact Patrick Roy had on them. There are plenty of European players who saw their countrymen pave the way in the NHL which led them to follow their own dream. If they can do it, I can do it. And how many tiny players in this league grew up MSL fans because of a connection they were able to make? This is no different as Wally and Jo spoke about what a player like Iginla meant to them. If a single kid grows a love of the game or becomes a Lightning fan because seeing Wally, Jo, and Smith together meant something to them, then that's awesome.

 

[PhysicalGraffiti]

Weird that they asked the Bolts player who's been most vocal about racial injustice about being part of a potentially historic event in sports.

Not sure what you're laughing at, he's 100 % right about what's being spread around. The league bowed last season to a false and dangerous narrative and a shame idiots like McBackup even got involved.

 

[AndreRoy]

I don't want to get into "social discussions", but you americans are obsessed with "races". Jesus christ, wanna solve racism and make it stop? Stop pointing out everyone's skin color as if it mattered, because by doing so you make it matter. And it shouldn't. When looking at the Lightning starting lineup, you should see three Lightning players, not three black Lightning players. Stop seeing people by their skin tone, start seeing everybody as fellow human beings.

A-f***ing-men. Unfortunately if you say what you just said these days you get attacked for being “racist”. Amazing that our language has been so twisted by those in charge that the person who refuses to treat people differently based on the color of their skin is now considered the racist - it’s downright Orwellian.

And it’s not all Americans who are obsessed with race - just those who use it as a weapon with which to gain power and slander anyone who disagrees with them. Many of us are fed up with this BS.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

its almost like being born into a society with both systemic and institutional racism can affect you in your formative years. huh. curious that.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Alright, let’s move on! Playoffs bb!