#####Watch Previous Game Highlights [Here](https://youtu.be/xJ8rKNc0yho?si=eGOk4ieiN8o9aQRR)
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###Season Head-to-Head: Series Tied 0-0
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Team|GP|W-L-OTL|PTS|P%|DIF
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TBL|35|17-13-5|39|.557|-2
FLA|33|19-12-2|40|.606|+9
###Regular Season Stats
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Amalie Arena|7:00 PM|Bally Sun, Bally Florida, ESPN+
###Match Info
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12/30|12/31|1/2|1/4
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TBL|TBL|TBL|TBL|TBL
vs NYR|vs MTL|@ WPG|@ MIN|@ BOS
###Upcoming Games
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#Players To Watch
###Tampa Bay
* ###Andrei Vasilevskiy
* ###Nikita Kucherov
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###Florida
* ###Matthew Tkachuk
* ###Carter Verhaeghe
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#Game Notes
* ###Hopefully Santa brought everyone lots of Bolts swag
* ###We can move to 2nd in the Atlantic with a win and some help from Ottawa
* ###GO BOLTS⚡️⚡️⚡️
by MonarchChonarch
50 Comments
Sorry for the delay, I forgot that everything was in lowercase for the caps game and I had to go back and fix it
Important one here LFG
Damn they look so good out there right now. So many close chances
god damm this is scintillating action, playoff like
Well… fuck.
High stick?
How the fuck is this puck not going in?!?!
Damn you pick luck
Give ‘em 2 for roughing just because
Idk how that Point chance didn’t go in
Bob is gonna channel his playoff form just against us isn’t he…
Bruh the turnovers tonight wtf
Uhhhh, wtf happened to Kuch
Kuch going to be pisssed if/when he comes back
Kuch pls come back for the PP
Picturing Kuch running down the tunnel when he hears “TECO POWER PLAY!!”
This is gonna be one of THOSE games isn’t it?
Tuned in. Surprised to see the Florida goal
That was a good PP after missing our best player.
This fucking stinks already lol damnit man two PP and nothing and we don’t know if Kuch is coming back.
Bob is a brick wall tonight
It looks like Bob is really keen on giving up rebounds, especially on the PP. Maybe that’ll come in handy later
You can see why the Panthers get called for so many penalties. They just hit everyone and put their stick everywhere.
Panthers broadcast is shit
Kuch back on the bench 🙏
Didn’t really see it but their goal looked pretty cheap right?
Hoping Kuch turns on his angry beast mode after return
Defending decently in their own end but Jesus Christ that was a master class in shit puck management
eh, kind of a blah start but they came back from 0-2 vs vegas
hopefully the bois don’t get game managed into oblivion, already up 2 on PPs
Gimme some of that recent second period Lightning, not the old stuff
I said it in the pregame thread but man I hate long layoffs for this team, especially Vasy I feel takes a little while to get going but I don’t have any data to back that up
6 high danger chances and no goals. Seems normal for us.
RIP
Oh, okay
convinced this team would be bruins-playoff-level-offense-vs-tampa without kuch
One of those games
i blame bashill
oh right the team needed that hagel fight to fire themselves up
need watson or jeannot to just grab bennett and start throwing hands
Looks like normal TB second period (again)
Seem deflated after getting such good chances and not scoring. Looking real tentative in our own zone.
And of course we can’t have any puck luck to save our lives.
Need more shots from the blue line if we’re getting juicy rebounds like that tonight
I’m not saying we look bad, but Florida seems hungry. If we want to win, they’re going to make us work for it.
One of those games where the puck refuses to go in for us
Need kuch and point to score asap
We’ve been looking more clinical the last few games so I hope that shows up here soon
We could use another spirited bout like Hagel vs Barbashev last week
I’m going to say it now, a Wild Stamkos is going to appear out of nowhere and activate.
I think both teams are trying to set the record for icings in a period.
this team needs like 3 more mikey eyssimonts