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Goaltender Ben Bishop leads Lightning to 3rd straight win

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There are times he seems taller than his 6-foot-seven. There are times he seems to be bigger than his 216 pounds. Take the closing moments of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 4-2 victory over the Carolina Panthers, when Ben Bishop was as huge as you could imagine. Bishop closed out the victory with perfect goaltending, stopping all 17 third period shots. Some of them were terrific saves, prompting coach Jon Cooper to refer to the closing moments as “the Ben Bishop…

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Blues beat Lighting behind controversial goal off the foot

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This is hockey. A team isn’t supposed to lose on a field goal. And yet, the Lightning lost a 2-1 game to the St. Louis Blues on Sunday night when the puck went into the net off the foot of Patrik Berglund with 2:29 to play. The officials immediately disallowed the goal, but after a review, they reversed the call and counted the goal. “It was an intentional kick,” said goaltender Ben Bishop. “He knows what he’s doing . It’s…

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Ben Bishop shines as Lighting stays hot with a 3-1 win over Wings

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The all-star break wasn’t long enough to cool off the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Lightning won its ninth game of its last 10, beating the Detroit Red Wings 3-1. Tampa Bay is in second place in the Atlantic Division, five points behind Florida. Tampa Bay got two power play goals in the victory. The Lightning got only four shots in the first and four in the third, but they made them count. J.T. Brown scored the game’s first goal. After…

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Lightning’s seven-game winnings streak stopped by Panthers

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A huge second period was enough for the Florida Panthers to stop all of the momentum of the Tampa Bay Lightning Saturday night in Sunrise. The Lightning, which had won seven straight games and entered this one hoping to tie the record for the most the franchise had ever won in a row, were overwhelmed in the second period and went on to lose a 5-2 decision to the Panthers. The Panthers outshot the Lightning 19-5 in the period. After…

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Suddenly hot Lightning wins 5th game in a row

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The Tampa Bay Lightning is playing as if it never plans to lose again. The Lightning beat the Florida Panthers Sunday night, 3-1, to momentarily climb to third in the NHL East Standings. Nikita Kucherov scored twice, the opening goal and an empty-netter, to lead the Lightning in scoring. Andrej Sustr also scored for the Lightning. Tampa Bay, which has spent most of the season trying to climb the standings, are now 24-17-4. For the Lightning, goaltender Ben Bishop stopped…

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Lightning closes out road trip with big win over Colorado

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For a night, they were terrific again. For a night, they skated crisply, and they shot relentlessly, and they smothered the opposition. For a night, the Tampa Bay Lightning looked like a contender again. Tampa Bay won a rare lopsided game (this year) as they stopped the Colorado Avalanche, 4-0, to complete a 3-1 road trip. For the moment, the Lightning is in seventh place. They are one point behind Montreal in the Atlantic Division and three behind Detroit. “As…

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Year in Review: Lightning still searching for their identity halfway through a season

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Of all the adjectives you might have applied to the Tampa Bay Lightning, average would not have been one of them. Electric. There’s one. Relentless. There’s another. They were dynamic and young and fast and talented and breathtaking … last year. Everyone agreed on that. But mediocre and pedestrian and routine. But like the Tampa Bay Rays of 2009 (the year after the World Series) and the Bucs of 2003 (the year after the Super Bowl), the Lightning have settled…

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