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

Posted in Current Events, Lightning on August 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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Returning to Earth with a thud

Posted in Lightning, Rays on April 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

At 8:30pm or so I went through my progression of local sports channels… 31, 69, 17…
First I caught the Lightning game… 3 – 1… the other guys… no wait, make that 4 – 1.
Crap.
Flipping the channel I caught the Rays game… 7 – 1… the other guys on top.
I didn’t really feel like watching TV [...]

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The news from row S

Posted in Beth, Lightning on November 10, 2005 | Comments Off

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, [...]

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Working hard not to be distracted at work,

Posted in Current Events, Lightning on June 7, 2004 | Comments Off

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 [...]

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Hockey night in Florida!

Posted in Current Events, Lightning on March 5, 2004 | Comments Off

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 [...]

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