Game Thread: Battle of the Sunshine State

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Tampa Bay Lightning
Overall record: 22-11-3 (47 points
Road record: 8-8-2
Last 10: 6-2-2
Streak: +4
GFA: 2.64
GAA: 2.36
PP%: 15.9%
PK%: 83.9%
Projected lineup:
L1: Ondrej Palat - Tyler Johnson - Martin St. Louis
L2: Alex Killorn - Valtteri Filppula - Teddy Purcell
L3: JT Brown - Nate Thompson - Nikita Kucherov
L4: Richard Panik - Tom Pyatt - Jean-Phillippe Cote
D1: Sami Salo - Victor Hedman
D2: Matt Carle - Radko Gudas
D3: Eric Brewer - Andrej Sustr
G: Ben Bishop

Florida Panthers
Overall record: 14-18-5
Home record: 7-7-3
Last 10: 7-3-0
Streak: -1
GFA: 2.24
GAA: 3.05
PP%: 10.7%
PK%: 73.4%
Projected lineup:
L1: Jonathan Huberdeau - Nick Bjugstad - Scott Upshall
L2: Sean Bergenheim - Aleksander Barkov - Brad Boyess
L3: Tomas Fleischmann - Marcel Goc - Tomas Kopechky
L4: Jimmy Hayes - Shawn Matthias - Krys Barch
D1: Brian Campbell - Tom Gilbert
D2: Erik Gubranson - Dylan Olsen
D3: Dmitry Kulikov - Mike Weaver
G: Scott Clemmensen

Series notes
All-time: Panthers lead series 57-33-11 plus 10 ties
Last season: Lightning won series 3-1-1
This season: Lightning lead series 2-0
Last meeting: 10/27/2013 @ Sunrise, FL , Lightning won 4-3 in SO

Doob's take
Somewhat of an underrated rivalry IMO. Both teams being from Florida, and both teams have been on a recent hot streak. Both teams have been grinding out wins, so I expect a close one here. At the end of the day I think the Lightning have a more complete team so I will pick them to win by a score of 3-2.

 

[Bolt Fore]

Panthers have been hot lately so don't be surprised ! However we have Bishop.

 

[Cobiemonster]

Panthers playing very well lately, I think this might actually be one of the better games tonight

 

[dannyb24195]

A couple of changes tonight Doob, Brewer is out with a upper body injury so in comes Barberio to take his place and Crombeen looks to be back instead of Panik. I expect this to be a close gritty game, I have the bolts taking this one 3-2 in OT.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

A couple of changes tonight Doob, Brewer is out with a upper body injury so in comes Barberio to take his place and Crombeen looks to be back instead of Panik. I expect this to be a close gritty game, I have the bolts taking this one 3-2 in OT.

My bad, got the starting lineups from DailyFaceoff, apparently they need to update their lineups.

 

[Todd1a]

wow what a blowout!! 6-1 win that makes 5 wins in a row now! one point behind boston in the standings!

 

[Cobiemonster]

I was surprised by this, I thought the Panthers would show up a little better in this one

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Congrats Lightning fans.

 

[Todd1a]

Congrats Lightning fans.

I'm so happy we don't stink anymore!

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

I'm so happy we don't stink anymore!

I don't think you guys ever stunk, just had bad luck.

 

[Todd1a]

I don't think you guys ever stunk, just had bad luck.

ya due to bad goalie luck could not find a good starter for a long time. I think yzerman is the guy that will lead us back to the stanley cup.

 

[dannyb24195]

Good team win, so many of these youngsters are growing up so quickly, it's great to see!

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all you Lightning fans!

 

[dannyb24195]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all you Lightning fans!

HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas from the UK! Got a Lightning Jersey for crimbo! A white #91, couldn't be happier. Have a great day guys!!!

 

[Todd1a]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all you Lightning fans!

Thank you you as well

 

[Todd1a]

HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas from the UK! Got a Lightning Jersey for crimbo! A white #91, couldn't be happier. Have a great day guys!!!

Merry Christmas let's hope the lightning give us a playoff Berth in 2014

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas from the UK! Got a Lightning Jersey for crimbo! A white #91, couldn't be happier. Have a great day guys!!!

Thank you you as well

Hope you both enjoy this festive day. Stay safe tho, lots of drunkies out on the streets tonight.

 

[dannyb24195]

Merry Christmas let's hope the lightning give us a playoff Berth in 2014

Hopefully so. GO BOLTS!!!