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Stanley Cup playoffs: Tampa Bay Lightning win after roller coaster of emotions
Rarely do you see an NHL team try so heartily to give away a playoff game and then fight so valiantly to steal it back the way the Tampa Bay Lightning did Saturday afternoon.
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A sense of the surreal for Bolts' Mike Smith
TAMPA, Fla. -- A career is sometimes a fragile, fleeting thing. Just ask Tampa Bay netminder Mike Smith, who earlier this year wondered if his care...
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Bolts-Bruins: Tampa goaltending questions
BOSTON -- Maybe it's just word play or maybe it's just reporters being naturally suspicious, but there remains at least a little uncertainty surroundi...
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Stanley Cup playoffs 2011: Mike Smith gets Game 5 nod in goal for Lightning
Tampa Bay Lightning coach Guy Boucher has chosen Mike Smith as his starting goaltender against the Boston Bruins for tonight's Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals.
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Bolts-B's: Roloson, Downie updates for Game 5; Kaberle struggling again
BOSTON -- Look for Dwayne Roloson to start in goal for the Tampa Bay Lightning in Monday night's Game 5 against Boston, even though no one would say f...
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2011 Stanley Cup playoffs: Boston Bruins' big stars, not Tampa Bay...
Tampa Bay rolled the dice in Monday's Game 5 but ultimately missed a great opportunity in a game that was its for the taking.
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So, why exactly did Tampa Bay decide to switch goalies at such a crucial time?
BOSTON -- We're not sure which was more puzzling, Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher's decision to start Mike Smith in goal or his rationale for doing so. ...
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2011 Stanley Cup playoffs: Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning free agency
Scott Burnside takes stock of which players coming to the ends of their contracts have helped or hurt their leverage as free agents.
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Bruins-Bolts: Dwayne Roloson will start
TAMPA, Fla. -- No mysteries or gamesmanship when it comes to who will start in goal for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a do-or-die Game 6: Dwayne Roloson....
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2011 Stanley Cup playoffs: Tampa Bay Lightning put words into action
After going 240 minutes without a power-play goal, the Tampa Bay Lightning opened the floodgates Wednesday night, scoring three times with the man advantage to defeat the Boston Bruins 5-4 and force a...
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Bruins-Bolts: Bird's eye view of Game 6
When Steven Stamkos scored on the power play in the third period, Martin St. Louis had a bird's eye view of it given that he was completely inside the...
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Bolts-B's: Bergenheim could miss Game 7
BOSTON -- The Tampa Bay Lightning are preparing for Game 7 as though Sean Bergenheim, a key depth player with nine playoff goals this spring, will mis...
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Bolts-Bruins: Burnside's keys to Game 7
BOSTON -- For six games, the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning have waged a war of unpredictability. Never mind game to game, this series has feat...
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2011 Stanley Cup playoffs: Boston Bruins answer the call in Game 7
In one of the most compelling playoff games in a long time, the Bruins, to a man, answered the bell in advancing to their first Stanley Cup finals since 1990.
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In defeat, Lightning should take solace in their remarkable 2010-11 turnaround
BOSTON -- To walk into the Tampa Bay Lightning dressing room after Friday's Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals was to confront the dark side of t...
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