Give credit to the Breakaway Beach for the following rundown of tonights game:

Toronto (at TB)

• 3rd game in 4 days
• Played last night at FLA (4-2 W)
• 12-12-0 after a win
• 8-2-0 with 0 days off
• PP is 7/33 (21.2%) in last 5 games, 20.4% for season
• PK is 27/33 (81.8%) in last 5 games, 80.7% for season
• 2nd game of 3 game road trip
• 10-13-2 on road this season
• 1-1-0 vs TB this season, 1-2-1 last season
• 2-1-0 in second of back to back games when playing 3rd game in 4 nights
• Outshot in 31 of 51 (60.7%) of games this season
• Outshot in 18 of 25 (72%) of road games this season (8-9-1 when outshot on road)
• McCabe expected to return tonight
• 1-7-1 without McCabe

Tampa Bay (vs TOR)

• 3rd game in 4 days
• Last played Sunday at WAS (1-2 L)
• 9-10-1 after a loss
• 9-12-0 with 1 day off
• PP is 5/29 (17.2%) in last 5 games, 14% for season
• PK is 18/18 (100%) in last 5 games, 24/24 in last 8 games, 83.7% for season
• First game home after 2 game road trip (1-1-0)
• 1-5-1 when home after a road trip of 2+ games
• 5-6-1 in first game back home (all)
• 20-11-3 when outshooting opponent, 7-8-1 when outshot

Sydor Fuzzy After Puck Drills Him

Former Lightning GM Rick Dudley, a special adviser with the Blackhawks, attended Saturday’s game in Philadelphia and Sunday’s in Washington. Chicago is reportedly shopping former Lightning D Jassen Cullimore.

I missed this one in the Tribune today (hat tip to Spectors Hockey guru Lyle Richardson for posting on Spectors). Cullimore being brought back tot he Lightning would be a very interesteing situation and a qustionable move in certain lights. Some believe Cullimore’s skating and the new NHL do not mix.

Also, it’s a big quesiton just what the ‘Hawks would want in return for Cullimore’s services? Draft picks? Ryan Craig? Paul Ranger? Or possibly even former first round pick Mike Egener and more?

Well, Bolts fans, if you thought the Lightning had a shot at catching Carolina in standings, todays move could put a serious damper on that…

See comments on the Multimedia post…

The Run hits a roadbump….

I’ve added 3 new clips to the Multimedia section of Boltsmag…

For starters — The Sarich / Kostopolous fight, with special thanks to David of HockeyFights.

The others? Vaclav Prospal’s season-opening goal versus Carolina as well as Ruslan Fedotenko’s overtime GWG from earlier this week.

I’ve also uploaded other multimedia highlights the last few days but those will be added int eh Multimedia listing at a later point.

Seems Vinny Lecavalier injured his foot during play late in today’s blowout versus Philadelphia… The injury appears to be serious… Of course, the only report I can find is on RDS so take it with a grain of salt…. But the word “fracture” is in there.

I’ll try to find a link to verify the Jaspers / O’Brien call up… O’Brien would definately be needed in light of Daryl Sydor’s injury today and the fact the team could not determine the extent of the injury (non concussion).

Disregard said post.

On the day the Pirates invaded downtown Tampa, a few hundred miles to the north, the Tampa Bay Lightning invaded Philadelphia and pillaged the injury riddled Flyers…

Sean Burke registered the Lightning’s 2nd consecutive shutout and Freddie Modin scored a hat trick as the Lightning continue their streak — now 5-0-1 in the last 6 with 11 points — with a new found passion in play.

One can easily point to the fact the Lightning faced Roberto Luongo and Martin Brodeur on consecutive games and Antero Niitymaki landed himself in a pile of do-do having to face a frustrated Lightning offense that had produced 83 shots over the span of those two games and only scored 3 goals total. In this instance the Lightning piled on 30 shots — converting on six. Three of which were on the power play.

Martin St. Louis had 2 assists, Pavel Kubina notched 3 and rookie Ryan Craig had a goal and an assist.

All in all, it was a pillaging fo the Flyers in this matinee matchup…. The Lightning nw stand at 58 points…

Evgeny Artyukhin was the reason the Lightning opened scoring, driving hard at Antero. Niitymakii made the initial save but with a crowd around the net and Antero out of position, Dan Boyle (rumored replacement defensiveman for Team Canada at the Turin Olympics) capitalized on the loose puck… This kid is just as Balls-to-the-wall as Freddie Modin has been in his tenure witht he Lightning, if not more so.

Daryl Sydor went down with an injury however - and I admit ignorance in knowing what the injury was as the WMOR broadcast of the game absolutely reeked.

The Run continues…

The NBC Broadcast of the Tampa Bay Lightning versus the Philadelphia Flyers is not going to air on the local Tampa Bay NBC affiliate. WFLA - Channel 8 - will be broadcasting the Gasparilla invasion parade (for the 55th consecutive year).

The game will be televised in teh Tampa Bay market on WMOR TV 32.

The Olympics poll will coe back in a few days… I’m running an off topic poll (non-hockey) and asking who will be the Super Bowl Champions this year?

Is it getting better, or do they look the same?
Will it be much easier now? They’re actually winning games…

They won and it’s
Not the same
They went and beat the Devils, Beat the Devils…
Won

And The Run continues. 4-0-1 and nine points in the last five games.