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Ben Bishop collides with Victor Hedman, Lightning reel

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TAMPA He was the last guy on the ice that Ben Bishop was worried about. After all, he is one of the good guys. Most nights, Bishop has no greater ally on the Tampa Bay Lightning than Victor Hedman, the big defenseman of the Lightning. Most nights, he’s the guy who clears out trouble. But this time, it was Hedman who was bearing down on Bishop. He did not see him, and he could not hear him as Bishop yelled.…

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Injured Tampa Bay goalie Bishop still uncertain for Game 5

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Lightning goalie Ben Bishop spent 15 minutes on the ice Saturday during Tampa Bay’s morning skate for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. The Lightning haven’t decided whether the injured 53-game winner will play against the Chicago Blackhawks. Although Bishop said “there’s progress being made” on the undisclosed injury that kept him out of Game 4, the goalie and Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper both said they’ll determine later whether Bishop can start. Rookie Andrei Vasilevskiy will start his…

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Lightning coach Jon Cooper is having a ball in the Stanley Cup Finals

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The pressure is mounting. His goaltender missed practice. His star scorers are comparing slumps. His power play lacks power. And, man, is Jon Cooper having fun. That’s the point of all of this, remember? Beneath all the pressure and the pain and problems, this is essentially a kid’s game, and Cooper is loose at the carnival. All the other teams have gone home, and all the other arenas have grown quiet. Yet, the loose Lightning party on. Isn’t that the…

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Lightning’s Ondrej Palat the most unappreciated Triplet

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He was never supposed to be essential. He was never supposed to be special. And yet, Ondrej Palat skates on, sweating, grinding, squeezing two minutes worth of production out of 45 seconds worth of ice time. He never slacks off, never lets up, never seems to make a mistake. He is the most unappreciated Triplet of them all. He is the last star you recognize. And yet, on this Tampa Bay Lightning team, he is essential. If you wish, you…

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Lesson in logic: Bob Buckhorn’s Chicago smack talk is OK because it’s not as bad as Hulk Hogan’s

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn doesn’t know “smack talking” like Hulk Hogan, apparently. In a Facebook post Wednesday morning Buckhorn shared a Tampa Bay Times article about Hulk Hogan’s verbal and social media rivalry with Chicago wrestler CM Punk over the Lightning showdown with the Blackhawks. “Now this is some smack talking,” Buckhorn wrote. “Careful though some bloggers may actually think they are serious.” Buckhorn is likely referring either to me or Creative Loafing’s Kate Bradshaw or both. Bradshaw first called…

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Hogan rips into Blackhawks as trash-talk escalates

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God bless the Hulkster. He means well. Hulk Hogan called out Chicago wrestler C.M. Punk (who?) this week, pointing out that the Blackhawks are “in a lot of trouble” and they should take their puck and go home. CM can show them the way.” That might be a delightful little side dish, because no one can trash talk quite like Hogan, the former pro wrestler. But the artist known as Punk had the last laugh when he pointed out that…

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Is Game 4 a desperate enough situation for Lightning?

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When the skies are at their darkest, they are at their best. When they are backed into the corner, or backed up on the ledge, they are their most dangerous. Call them Team Desperation. The players of the Tampa Bay Lightning, it seems, enjoy a little bit of adversity. It is the biggest secret of the sport, that fuel called desperation. It drives this team, it focuses them, it unifies them. When they have that hollowed-out feeling, when their throats…

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