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Lightning sign Holmqvist, But Still Have Goalie Issues

The Tampa Bay Lightning managed to squeak into the playoffs, but were held back by their lack of quality goaltending.After dealing for Marc Denis last off-season, the Bolts thought they had solved their goaltending problems. Why they thought a goalie that even COLUMBUS didn't want was going to help them, I have no...

The Heat is on in Tampa -- But on Which Goalie?

For the most part, the media focus of the Devils/Lightning series has been squarely on the men behind the masks, goaltenders Martin Brodeur and Johan Holmqvist, two guys whose numbers and playoff experiences couldn't be much more disparate. The conventional wisdom was (and probably still is) that Brodeur would not need to...

Does John Tortorella Know Something The Rest Of Us Don't Know?

In a late entry for Understatement of the Year, Tampa Bay Lightning captain Tim Taylor said of last night's 7-2 loss at home to the Florida Panthers, "Obviously we overlooked this game." Um, yeah.The deuce that Tampa was able to tally after the Panthers had put a touchdown on the board (and kicked the extra point) was...