LinkRW Marty St. Louis and LW Simon Gagne each extended their respective scoring streak to six games. … Tampa Bay was outshot for the sixth consecutive game.
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04-04-2011, 08:43 AM #46
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04-06-2011, 04:30 AM #47
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LinkD Eric Brewer missed his second consecutive game with an undisclosed lower-body injury suffered during the third period of Saturday's victory in Minnesota.
Brewer took part in the full morning workout, including doing some battle drills with Jones, and the injury is considered minor.
"If it was playoffs, he would for sure be playing,'' Boucher said. "But it's not, so we just don't want to have something nagging.''
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04-06-2011, 04:30 AM #48
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D Matt Smaby was a healthy scratch. … LW Ryan Malone returned after sitting out Sunday's game. … C Blair Jones became the all-time scoring leader for Norfolk (as an American Hockey League team) with his three-point effort Monday in a 5-2 victory at Charlotte. In 270 career games with Norfolk, Jones has 66 goals and 177 points.
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04-06-2011, 04:31 AM #49
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LinkD Randy Jones, who suffered a high ankle sprain during a March 9 game against Chicago, went through a full practice with the team Tuesday morning for the first time since suffering the injury.
The time frame for Jones was set at four to six weeks to recover; the four-week mark is today. And while there is a chance Jones could return in one of the final two regular-season games this weekend, the hope is that he will be ready for the start of the playoffs.
"It felt all right, but is was nice to be back out with the boys,'' said Jones, who missed his 14t{+h} consecutive game Tuesday. "We are trying to push it a little bit, you tweak it here and there, but we want to push it and try to test it and try to see how far we can take it at this point.''
Jones participated in each drill and did some one-on-one work along the wall.
"He looked pretty good, so maybe I think he'll be ready for the playoffs, so that's good for us,'' Lightning coach Guy Boucher said.
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04-06-2011, 02:49 PM #50
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Smart idea from the Tampa Bay medical staff. Brewer's going to be a key guy on the backend of this team and the Lightning need him 100% healthy for when the playoffs come around. It's a big boost to the defense knowing he's at 100% and that Randy Jones is returning shortly.
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04-07-2011, 05:05 AM #51
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Yeah we're going to need as many of our D-men as healthy as possible for the playoffs. Jones should be back soon too hopefully...
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04-07-2011, 05:05 AM #52
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tampabay.comSteve Yzerman at the end of the season will ask Lightning players who do not wear visors to consider adding them for 2011-12.
"We want to keep their eyesights and noses in place," Tampa Bay's general manager said. "It's something we would like to push moving forward."
Yzerman's statement came two days after C Vinny Lecavalier was hit in the right eye with a stick blade during Sunday's victory over the Blackhawks.
The captain sustained a scratch and a bruise to his cornea, and though there was no structural damage, Lecavalier said he was "lucky," so much so, he said, he will experiment this summer with wearing a visor, intending to make it permanent.
Lecavalier, who scored his 22nd goal Tuesday in the 4-2 loss to the Sabres and is under doctors orders to wear a visor for at least the rest of the regular season, said he took off the visor he wore in juniors because, as a rookie in 1998, "nobody really played with a visor."
"If I never took it off, I'd be fine with it," he said. "But once you take it off and you see perfect, when you put it back on, you feel a little restricted. It fogs up. The right thing to do would be to come from junior and never take it off."
Visors are now required in juniors, as well as the minor American League.
Lecavalier does not guarantee he will wear one full time. And W Ryan Malone, another of 10 Lightning players without a visor, pretty much rejected the notion outright: "When I've worn a visor in the past, at the Olympics and so forth, it's more of a pain. I feel like I'm wasting more energy cleaning it."
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I see where Yzerman's coming from considering the eye injury that he sastained late in his career. It almost forced him to retire due to it, and now you have Malhotra and Vinny suffering eye injuries. Just a scary place to get hit with a puck or stick. Originally Posted by americaspasttim
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10-05-2011, 01:50 AM #54
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Looks like Connolly has a good chance of starting the season with the team..."Lightning D Mattias Ohlund and his balky right knee will start the season on injured reserve, GM Steve Yzerman said Monday, freeing up a roster spot as the team makes its final cuts today to get to the maximum 23 players.
Before those decisions are finalized, the team will wait for a report on C Dominic Moore, who, like Ohlund, had an MRI exam Monday. Moore's problem is a sore back.
"It's more a precaution," Yzerman said. "We're going to get it checked out and make sure we're not missing anything."
Whatever is found, the door has opened further for RW Brett Connolly to make the team. Because he is junior-eligible, Connolly, 19, can play nine NHL games before he must be sent back to juniors or have the clock start on his three-year, $2.7 million contract."
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12-07-2011, 12:59 PM #55
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"The Lightning's already stressed blue-line situation got even worse Monday.
D Pavel Kubina did not play against the Senators because of a lower-body injury. And GM Steve Yzerman said D Mattias Ohlund, who last week had a significant setback in his recovery from arthroscopic surgeries on both knees and is no longer skating, is out indefinitely.
"I don't know when he will be back," Yzerman said of Ohlund, who had the double procedure Oct. 11. "He's just having a difficult time trying to get back to health."
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12-07-2011, 02:52 PM #56
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McCabe...
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12-07-2011, 03:06 PM #57
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I just don't understand why the Bolts haven't made him a priority. I haven't heard any rumors even that they're looking into him...
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12-07-2011, 03:30 PM #58
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I haven't heard any rumors about him.
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12-07-2011, 03:33 PM #59
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I know he turned down some offers from West Coast teams because he wanted to stay in Florida with his family. Seems like Tampa would be a fit for him...
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Bingo. I mentioned TB in the offseason. His family lives in Florida, and he had another child in the offseason. TB makes the most sense Originally Posted by americaspasttim
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