The goalie situation in this series is all discombobulated. For the Cats, I don't think the issue is quality of goaltending. Forget how much Bob is being paid and look at the individual goals. Sure, he wants a bunch of those back, but several were not stoppable. If you keep giving Tampa power plays with Kuch/Stamkos bombing you from the dots, it's not going to end well, regardless of who is in net.

Cats have won the 5v5 battle for almost the entire series. They have to find ways to finish their chances, like they did in overtime. The Bolts defense is struggling (and Hedman is hobbled) and they are going to give up plenty of chances. The Cats have fewer guys who can bury those chances on average. Sucks about Stralman. I hated to see him go and hoped he would have continued success down south.

Next game should be nuts. Put on your seatbelts. Have your bourbon ready.
- GalacticStone

Totally agree. I think the move to put Knight in (if it happens) is more of a “shock” to the system for the guys in front of him.

A lot of the goals TBL scored were redirects, nasty one-timers, etc., and almost guaranteed on the man advantage with how bad Florida’s PK is.

Tampa and Kuch must be doing something right, judging from all the butthurt they inspire in panty-waisted fans of teams playing golf right now
- GalacticStone

I don’t know. Lots of people hate the Flyers and Leafs and they’ve combined for a whopping zero cups in the last 49 years. Some teams are just really easy to dislike, and the Lightning’s combination of high-end skill, forward depth, dirty plays from some of their elite talent and cap hijinks makes them an almost obvious target of scorn. Doesn’t mean they’re necessarily doing something right at the moment and it doesn’t mean fans are butthurt. They just seem to have become an immensely unlikeable team the last several years. Probably a blast to root for, though.

I don’t know. Lots of people hate the Flyers and Leafs and they’ve combined for a whopping zero cups in the last 49 years. Some teams are just really easy to dislike, and the Lightning’s combination of high-end skill, forward depth, dirty plays from some of their elite talent and cap hijinks makes them an almost obvious target of scorn. Doesn’t mean they’re necessarily doing something right at the moment and it doesn’t mean fans are butthurt. They just seem to have become an immensely unlikeable team the last several years. Probably a blast to root for, though.
- Sashamook

It was a long long long drought of awfulness after that first Cup. This is a rare and special time for Lightning fans who have put up with shady owners and cheapskate rosters. This current squad is easily the most talented the Bolts have ever had. It's increasingly likely that their window is closing and this will be the last year the band is still together. It's been nice having a team worth rooting for. The cap is going to catch up to them soon, probably this offseason. Then they'll be in decline for years to come and will catch all kinds of grief from the fans of other teams. What goes around comes around, so I hope they can win another Cup to pad their resume.

Living in Florida is a backwards-ass hell for everything else. The Bolts are all we got. LOL.

Totally agree. I think the move to put Knight in (if it happens) is more of a “shock” to the system for the guys in front of him.

A lot of the goals TBL scored were redirects, nasty one-timers, etc., and almost guaranteed on the man advantage with how bad Florida’s PK is.
- Matt Ross

Knight might be the bucket of cold water the Cats need. Back to the wall time. No bad ideas at this point....except dressing Yandle.

I don't want to go back to page 1, synopsis of big rumble please.

Living in Florida is a backwards-ass hell for everything else..
- GalacticStone

Why do you stay if that’s how you feel?

Why do you stay if that’s how you feel?
- Ratsreign

Peace River fossil deposits. One of the top three Pleistocene fossil deposits in the world, after the Arctic permafrost and the La Brea tar pits. People travel from all over the world to hit the Peace River for fossils, and it's practically in my backyard. That makes all the other BS worth it.

Well, the beaches aint bad either.

Peace River fossil deposits. One of the top three Pleistocene fossil deposits in the world, after the Arctic permafrost and the La Brea tar pits. People travel from all over the world to hit the Peace River for fossils, and it's practically in my backyard. That makes all the other BS worth it.

Well, the beaches aint bad either.
- GalacticStone

I know of a guy who spends a lot of time fossil hunting there. He has found some really interesting things there, such as megalodon teeth.

I know of a guy who spends a lot of time fossil hunting there. He has found some really interesting things there, such as megalodon teeth.
- Ratsreign

Megalodon teeth, mammoth tusks (and teeth), sabre-tooth cat, giant ground sloth, glyptodont, dire wolf, and all sorts of weird extinct beasts. I live for it when the river is low enough to hunt. I'm going again this week before the summer rains start.

Megalodon teeth, mammoth tusks (and teeth), sabre-tooth cat, giant ground sloth, glyptodont, dire wolf, and all sorts of weird extinct beasts. I live for it when the river is low enough to hunt. I'm going again this week before the summer rains start.



- GalacticStone

That’s gotta be way cool when you find something like that. Have fun searching.

Megalodon teeth, mammoth tusks (and teeth), sabre-tooth cat, giant ground sloth, glyptodont, dire wolf, and all sorts of weird extinct beasts. I live for it when the river is low enough to hunt. I'm going again this week before the summer rains start.



- GalacticStone

So cool! How often do you find things? Some unreal remnants of creatures you mentioned.

Crazy that stuff is just out there waiting to be found.

So cool! How often do you find things? Some unreal remnants of creatures you mentioned.

Crazy that stuff is just out there waiting to be found.
- Matt Ross

It's getting harder to find the good stuff. The pandemic caused an explosion in the number of fossil-hunters on the river. All the usual and easy to reach spots are picked clean now. You have to paddle a long ways from the access point to reach a spot that hasn't been hunted to death.

Last time out, I found a partial (about 1/3rd) of a mammoth tooth, but that was about it for "good finds". The rest of my loot was common stuff - small shark teeth, broken dugong rib sections, turtle scutes, and recent/Holocene deer bones and the like. I've been skunked on megalodon teeth this season - just some broken pieces, but no complete or near-complete teeth.

Just spending all day out on the river is payment enough. A failed day of fossil-hunting is better than a successful day of many other things.

I wrote a blog article about fossil-hunting on the Peace that touches on some of the experience - https://galactic-stone.co...nting-in-the-peace-river/

It's getting harder to find the good stuff. The pandemic caused an explosion in the number of fossil-hunters on the river. All the usual and easy to reach spots are picked clean now. You have to paddle a long ways from the access point to reach a spot that hasn't been hunted to death.

Last time out, I found a partial (about 1/3rd) of a mammoth tooth, but that was about it for "good finds". The rest of my loot was common stuff - small shark teeth, broken dugong rib sections, turtle scutes, and recent/Holocene deer bones and the like. I've been skunked on megalodon teeth this season - just some broken pieces, but no complete or near-complete teeth.

Just spending all day out on the river is payment enough. A failed day of fossil-hunting is better than a successful day of many other things.

I wrote a blog article about fossil-hunting on the Peace that touches on some of the experience - https://galactic-stone.co...nting-in-the-peace-river/
- GalacticStone

Maybe one day you’ll find the remnants of a Panther goaltender out there...

Q not announcing the starting goalie for tonight until pregame skate. Looks like he may give Knight a shot, or he could go back to Driedger. Getting the sense from tweets I’ve seen that it definitely won’t be Bob going tonight.