GDT: 11/20/14 - 7:30PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Toronto

[TheDaysOf 04]

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[Brie]

Toronto must be feeling a lot of pressure on them leading into tonights game so if the bolts are smart they will come out flying and try to use that pressure against them, but it's us so who knows what they will do. Hoping for a good game either way and non of what happened the last time we played that team...well, I coulf go with a shutout...

 

[Liferleafer]

Toronto must be feeling a lot of pressure on them leading into tonights game so if the bolts are smart they will come out flying and try to use that pressure against them, but it's us so who knows what they will do. Hoping for a good game either way and non of what happened the last time we played that team...well, I coulf go with a shutout...

You guys have no worries....the Leafs are in shambles right now. If you guys are going to beats us....make sure you run up the score....it will help get Carlyle fired faster.

 

[Damifino]

You guys have no worries....the Leafs are in shambles right now. If you guys are going to beats us....make sure you run up the score....it will help get Carlyle fired faster.

I remember feeling exactly the same way with Melrose.

 

[Stamper]

I'm interested in seeing how our 3rd line matches against theirs, Komarov is the closest thing to Kings in the East

 

[NHLeitner]

As always, I want the Bolts to win. Today though, does it make me a bad person to hope they put up an 8 spot just to see what would happen?

 

[AlphaCatalyst]

Ready...Set...Cue the Stamkos to Toronto articles.

Go Lightning!

 

[Lecavaliers Stick]

If Bishop is indeed in the net, a loss here would be bad. Like really, really bad.

 

[FinnLightning26]

I have a bad feeling about this one. They've been pounded really hard in the last two games and they know they have to have a good showing tonight if they wan't to dodge a complete disaster. Then again, this is a game we shouldn't lose.

I believe we win but it will be a lot tighter than the last two Leafs games.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Normally I'd expect the Leafs come out flying and extra angry after their latest showings. Then again, their morale could be in shambles right now and we might see a disinterested team waiting for a coaching staff change or a trade.

Either way I hope we are ready for this one, we blew dog against the Isles and it's still an inter-divisional game.

 

[2MinutesforGiraffing]

I'm very glad I no longer live in Toronto. I'll be watching this one from Tampa with a ton of beer handy.

 

[LightningStrikes]

I'm very glad I no longer live in Toronto. I'll be watching this one from Tampa with a ton of beer handy.

I see you're taking the Chief drinking game seriously.

 

[2MinutesforGiraffing]

I see you're taking the Chief drinking game seriously.

Actually had Chief ask me what I was drinking at the radio show last week after the Sharks game. It was a bonding experience

 

[LightningStrikes]

I almost forgot: How many goals will Panik score tonight?

Also, some fun stuff from the Leafs GDT:

 

[Swervin81]

Normally I'd expect the Leafs come out flying and extra angry after their latest showings. Then again, their morale could be in shambles right now and we might see a disinterested team waiting for a coaching staff change or a trade.

As a Leaf fan, I was saying the very same thing as the first sentence before the game against the Preds after we lost 6-2 to the Sabres on Saturday.

Honestly, I don't know why you guys are freaking out. We've given up 15 goals in our last 2 games against bottom 10 scoring teams, and 6 of them against the worst team in the cap era and the team on pace to be the worst scoring team in all of NHL history. Now we're facing you guys, probably the best team in the east. If you guys get off to an early lead, please pummel us into the ground... I want double digits. Anything that'll get half this team traded and Carlyle fired.

 

[Mikeaveli]

9-2 loss

 

[Bolto]

Not Steve Yzerman.

 

[BohemianRhandomly]

You guys have no worries....the Leafs are in shambles right now. If you guys are going to beats us....make sure you run up the score....it will help get Carlyle fired faster.

Always happy to help out.

Thing is, the Lightning are sort of a bipolar team - you never know which is going to show up on game day. We either show up to steamroll a team, or we are curled up in fetal position. There's not much middle ground. Here's to hoping the 'manic' Bolts play tonight, rather than the 'depressive' ones.

 

[2020 Cup Champions]

Stamkos is going to float around against his future team.

 

[FinnLightning26]

Stamkos is going to float around against his future team.

If he plays well, he's just showing his future employers what he can do.

 

[2020 Cup Champions]

If he plays well, he's just showing his future employers what he can do.

But that would mean increasing his trade value, and costing Toronto more assets to require.

 

[Brie]

Connolly looks to be in and Brown and Paquette looks to be out based on the lines during practise:

Erik Erlendsson @erlendssonTBO

#tblightning lines this morning: Filppula-Stamkos-Callahan; Palat-Johnson-Kucherov; Drouin-Namestnikov-Killorn; Morrow-Boyle-Connolly

 

[The Macho King]

Poor Brown.

 

[chasespace]

Dreamt last night that the score was 7-7 at the end but I woke up before OT started

 

[Ricebox]

9-2 Leafs

leafs fans throw squid on the ice, Stamkos trips over squid and breaks his face, out rest of season