Playoff tickets
Just a heads up. The team is selling eight-game strips for the first two rounds of the playoffs at the St. Pete Times Forum box office, at tampabaylightning.com or by calling (813) 301-6600.
There are two price structures; one for season-ticket holders and one for non season-ticket holders. Prices for season-ticket holders are from $808 to $168. Prices for non season-ticket-holders are $1,105 to $225.
Single-game tickets will be on sale at a future date and the team will still sell the $8 tickets available the mornings of game days.
Let the sarcasm begin ...


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First _two_ rounds? They'll be lucky if they make it into the playoffs at all.
Posted by: LackofFaith | March 27, 2007 at 09:28 PM
Sorry not making it.
Posted by: | March 27, 2007 at 10:44 PM
What Playoffs. TBL has big problems in the net ! Homer should have started to-night! It was sad! I really hoped the shining light would have been Vinny's 50! good thing Montreal and the Maple Leafs pulled off wins!
Posted by: | March 27, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Surely you jest, right?
Wow, another god-awful exhibition by a $3M slice of Swiss cheese for whom we've seen the last of Freddy Modin. That's what hurts the most. Grahame de-sensitized us to horse-bleep netminding resulting from thin defense. I always bite my lip when cracking about the Bolts D, knowing Pratt and Sarich leave it all out there every night. Slow as they are, maybe not the best, but I'm glad they're ours-here- working their tails off.
But that #30 has managed to thoroughly disgust me. (He had a chance keep us in the hunt and to raise his value, here or somewhere else. Pppffftt. He obviously doesn't see himself as a $4-5M man the way Biron does. Maybe the season long funk is his own disbelief that he's making $3M. Hmm?)
This lack of urgency, this lack of intensity, this absence of resolve to pitch a shutout, this nonchalance over holding a dad gum lead, this spotting every-freaking-club to three goals every-freaking- game, this-this (speechless,) WHERE IS YOUR BRAIN, MAN??
Waive him. Now. Get rid of that pox tonight. No further proof needed, he's a chronic. A worthless piece of Greek tragedy sucking up three million dollars is a disgrace to the rest of the guys on the club busting their stones for a ton less. (and more...) Five games to save a post season and the rest of the guys don't need to look over their shoulder to a guy who won't be there to backstop them. (Even if he stays.) Get him the heck out of here, I don't even want to hear about him at Norfolk this Fall.
Face it, some goalies hit a brick wall and can no longer play in this league, just when you'd think there were 5 or 6 more years in his tank.
If we had old man Belfour tonight and the Panthers had Denis, who'd be laughing now, eh?
Maybe there's a year or two left in Marc's tank; in a system that plays something which passes for defence. I'll take the picks please, Jay.
Posted by: Phantom | March 28, 2007 at 12:08 AM
Save your money. Spend it on a vacation instead. As Jim Mora said "Playoffs? Your talking Playoffs?"
After last night you can dump those hopes in the Bay with the rest of the flotsam and jetsam. As for Denis.....nothing to be said that has not already been written. Maybe Eric Perrin could suit up in net. He has enough heart and at times seems to be one of the few pushing the effort. How much worse could he be?
Posted by: | March 28, 2007 at 07:33 AM
Suitin' up old EP in goal may not be such a bad idea, if we could find pads that fit him. A better idea would be to use Prospal. As we all know, any puck that goes near him is sure to go wide of the net.
Posted by: Fred | March 28, 2007 at 09:17 AM
I agree with Phantom, waive Denis and put anybody in net. Heck, put homeless guy off the street in goal and tell him those are cans Natural Ice coming your way. He sure could do no worse than Denis.
Posted by: Tim | March 28, 2007 at 03:16 PM
Great idea, Tim! The cost of the Natty Ice would more than be offset by the money we'd save on Denis' hair gel.
Posted by: Fred | March 30, 2007 at 09:41 AM