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		<title>How bad can the Lightning be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Feaster]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has it gotten so bad over at the Forum that we celebrate the ridiculous overtime loss? I heard a couple people tell me the other day &#8220;the Bolts aren&#8217;t doing so bad, we lead the league in overtime losses&#8221;. Holy shit! How has it come to this? This team has become a chaotic nightmare of players skating aimlessly around with no passion or direction, coaches being fired and management trading players like bad stocks. The Lightning were bad last year but at least we could take solace in the thought that coach Tortorella had been there before and could right the ship with time. His time ran out and Jay Feaster&#8217;s did as well. Wait, if you stop and listen very carefully, you can hear them laughing. Do you hear it? I hope that they don&#8217;t hurt themselves with the uncontrollable laughing fits that must take place when these guys watch the Lightning play. Oh, you know they&#8217;re watching and enjoying every minute of it. Can you blame them? They engineered our Stanley Cup championship and were shown the door like they were a bad one night stand. Oren Koules and his henchmen are off to a terrible start with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightning get thumped!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karri Ramo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin St. Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey Devils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olaf Kolzig]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   Man that was brutal. Olaf Kolzig got beat down quickly and the Bolts didn&#8217;t stand a chance from there. The Lightning looked bad in every way giving up 5 goals before answering with 3 quick scores in the second. Vrbata, St. Louis and Malone did what they could to get the Bolts back in the game, but it was too little too late. They were outshot again 45-29 and the Devils eased up on them late. There is no breaking this down, the Lightning absolutely sucked last night! The offense can&#8217;t hang on to the puck, they flail shots with no direction and mishandle the puck way too much. The defense is atrocious, leaving holes all over, not pressuring the puck handler and let Kolzig get beat up on. Kolzig looked slow and out of it and did nothing to secure his position as temp starter while Mike Smith is out. Kari Ramo came in and did an adequate job in mopping up this mess, but the rest of the team needs to fix itself before any goalie will be able to succeed here. Smith has been coming on and Kolzig knows what he&#8217;s doing back there, but if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barry Melrose is gone in so many ways.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Melrose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Lawton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Boyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Feaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tortorella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin St. Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Carle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oren Koules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron MacLean's Hockey Night in Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vinny Lecavalier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   Barry Melrose appeared on Ron MacLean&#8217;s Hockey Night in Canada and tried to explain his dismissal from the Lightning. I&#8217;ve posted to video below and I encourage you to watch it and see if you find it as entertaining as I do. Thanks to Puck Daddy by the way for the heads up on this. Melrose sounds very bitter, as he should be, and blames the players by insinuating that they had to have gone to ownership and complain about him and that&#8217;s why he was &#8220;dismissed&#8221;. No shit, huh Barry? It seems that Mr. Melrose still doesn&#8217;t understand that you have to build relationships with players in order to succeed. Now let&#8217;s think about this, if things were so bad that the players had to seek out ownership to voice their displeasure with you after 16 games, you were not only NOT building relationships, you were alienating these guys. You did things so poorly that you had a revolt before you finished unpacking. There&#8217;s a lot to be said about that. This also screams poor management from the top as Oren Koules and company have created a circus in the Forum that may or may not continue. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those poor Bolts are so neglected!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Picard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tortorella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oren Koules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Prospal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vinny Lecavalier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   With everything being so busy I&#8217;ve been neglecting our Lightning. Well I&#8217;ve finally mustered up some recent news for the Bolts fans.    The NHL&#8217;s Board of Governor&#8217;s unanimously approved the sale of the Lightning to the new ownership group headed by Oren Koules. We all new this was coming, but the fiasco still isn&#8217;t over. There are some other things that need to be finished up by the purchasers, but this should be over with now. In the same article there were some rule changes, check it out here.    The Lightning acquired the negotiating rights to former fan favorite F Vaclav &#8220;Vinny&#8221; Prospal. The Bolts traded away Prospal last year for D Alex Picard, after feuding with coach John Tortorella. He is said to be seeking somewhere around $5 million, but with Torts gone who knows. The Bolts traded one of this years 7th round picks and, if he signs, next years 4th rounder to get Prospal back.    And finally, posterboy Vinny Lecavalier hauled in the King Clancy trophy last week. The award is given to the player who &#8220;best exemplifies leadership on and off the ice and has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution to the community&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell Torts, we&#8217;ll always have Calgary!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Melrose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tortorella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   The Lightning have officially let Head Coach John Tortorella go and the Stanley Cup winning coach is now available to be signed. It&#8217;s a sad day even though it may be welcomed by some fans and players. Torts was always a very strict coach who required alot of his players, made everyone accountable and is as stubborn as it gets. All of these traits, which may have led to his firing, were key in the Bolts&#8217; Playoff run in 2004 which eventually ended with the Lightning hoisting the Stanley Cup Trophy. Torts coached here in Tampa Bay for 6 and 1/2 seasons leading the team to four straight playoff appearances and compiled a career record of 239 wins, 222 losses, 36 ties and 38 OT losses. The Lightning made the big show under Torts from &#8217;02-03 to &#8217;06-&#8217;07, of course winning it all in &#8217;04. The Bolts finished last in the NHL last season and as the season went on it appeared the players had stopped listening. I&#8217;m sad to see him go but I&#8217;m not completely disappointed in it. I will be if the geniuses up top do decide to bring in Barry Melrose. Melrose is as useless a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lightning are a mess!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 01:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Melrose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tortorella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oren Koules]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   The Tampa Bay Lightning seem to be caught in a whirlwind of strange crap right now. The new ownership group headed by Oren Koules are giving a weird vibe with some of the stuff they&#8217;re doing. They apparently orchestrated the questionable Brad Richards/Mike Smith swap. Now there are rumors flying (out of Canada first again) that Barry Melrose will replace John Tortorella as head coach. Things are just strange with the Bolts now. First they trade Richards for a goalie that may or may not be good and the first to crack the story was the media in Canada. Now they are rumored to be replacing our Stanley Cup winning head coach with an ugly suit wearing mullet head who hasn&#8217;t coached in 13+ years. And they are doing all of this before they actually own the team. I heard something else today too. Apparently they don&#8217;t have enough money so they&#8217;re getting half of the money from the group they are buying the team from. Huh??!?! This is all just weird. I guess we shouldn&#8217;t be too surprised by strange behavior from the guy who does the Saw movies, but damn! Torts may be wearing on this team now but do we really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightning report-Lottery, Torts is pissed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Tortorella]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   A couple things of note here. Damian Cristodero has put up an explanation of the draft lottery and broke it down pretty nice. The way things are going the Bolts have a pretty good shot at the number one pick. On the dark side of things it sounds like coach John Tortorella is about to lose it. In a piece by Damien, Dan Boyle said there is no excuse to mail it in on the season and Torts more than agreed. As the coach so eloquently put it &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait til this &#8216;bleep&#8217; is over&#8221;. Nice. I can&#8217;t wait til training camp, it&#8217;s going to be fun. Related Posts:Lightning get top pick in draft.Lightning reportThe Lightning are a mess!Farewell Torts, we&#8217;ll always have Calgary!Those poor Bolts are so neglected!Melrose fired as Lightning coach.Boyle may be moved.Lightning reportMore Lightning advertisement fun!Blue Jackets hoping for Richards. Technorati Tags: John Tortorella, john tortorella complaints, Tampa Bay Lightning]]></description>
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