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	<title>Tampa Bay Sports Blog &#187; Radim Vrbata</title>
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		<title>Barry Melrose just won&#8217;t go away.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Melrose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Cuban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oren Koules]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this is going to be a long one as I try to catch up with the mess that is the Tampa Bay Lightning but I&#8217;ll do my best to keep it short. I&#8217;ll do it in bullets to try and make it easier to follow my rambling. Before the bullet points I&#8217;ll point out that the Bolts lost again and the toll is now at 8 straight win-less games. This team does suck right now. Let&#8217;s get to it. Radim Vrbata requested to go back to his native Czech Republic for &#8220;personal reasons&#8221; and the Bolts are relieved of his duties and contract for this year. I don&#8217;t know what his personal reasons are and, as you know, I don&#8217;t get into that but I am left wondering if he would still want to do this if the team were doing well. In the linked article Vrbata&#8217;s agent explains good reasons for Radim to request this but it still leaves me dumbfounded. If the team were good I don&#8217;t believe this would&#8217;ve happened. It&#8217;s explained that this relieves the Lightning of the $3 million owed to Vrbata for this season but he gets re-assigned to the Lightning in the summer [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Melrose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tortorella]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Radim Vrbata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Malone]]></category>

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		<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>Lightning still trying to get right with Tocchet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Melrose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cam Ward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolina Hurricanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Panthers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jussi Jokinen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin St. Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radim Vrbata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Tocchet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Brind'Amour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Stamkos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Prospal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vinny Lecavalier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   The Lightning came out fired up and ready to prove something under new coach Rick Tocchet. They looked better but couldn&#8217;t pull out a win on the road, losing 3-2. It&#8217;s a tough go in Carolina as it is, and under a new coachthey did about as good as expected. The defense only allowed 30 shots on goal, of which Mike Smith stopped 28, in regulation and overtime. They dropped it in the shootout that Carolina took when Rod Brind&#8217;Amour slipped one past Smith and Jussi Jokinen couldn&#8217;t answer. I think Tocchet is the type of coach that can get the best out of this team and he should have the rest of this season to prove it. Vinny and Marty had a goal a piece which is a great sign, especially against a tough goalie like Cam Ward. There was also talk yesterday that Steven Stamkos could be moved to the front line along side Vinny and Marty which would move Vinny Prospal to the second line with Radim Vrbata. I would like that move a lot. Stamkos said the pressure would then be on him but I disagree. I think it would take pressure off of him and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy little Bolts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evgeny Artyukhin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jay Feaster]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marc Denis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Recchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Carle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olaf Kolzig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oren Koules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radim Vrbata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Craig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Malone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Brannelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ty Wishart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Prospal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vinny Lecavalier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wyatt Smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   In the last month the Lightning have gone from the least talked about team in the NHL to the most talked about. They have been bought by Oren Koules and gang (finally), hired the Mullet, traded Dan Boyle and oh god let&#8217;s stop for a second. I&#8217;ll list all the moves by date below but I want to hit on the Dan Boyle trade. There was a ton of reaction to this and I need to put my two cents in. I agree with everyone who said it was a shady move by the new group to lie to Boyle and turn around a trade him. That was an asshole move that we have seen all too often from some other guys in the area (rhymes with Gruden and Allen, oops) and is not something I want to see become a trend with these guys. That being said, it was a good move. Boyle was overpaid and overrated as a defender. He was a good player but the picks we got for him are worth more than he would&#8217;ve been to this team. He may be missed as a teammate but no where else. As far as the rest [...]]]></description>
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