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A significant change to the Lightnings coaching staff raised serious questions about the relationship between coach Rick Tocchet and general manager Brian Lawton.
Tocchet said he was not consulted before AHL Norfolk coach Jim Johnson was promoted to Tampa Bay assistant and Lightning assistant Wes Walz was offered the Admirals job.
Walz, 39, who said he was [...]

It was in Philadelphia, when he played for the Flyers, that Lightning goaltender Antero Niittymaki got the nickname.
Then Flyers coach Ken Yap Hitchcock took the obvious, required-by-law hockey nickname - Niitty - and turned it on its ear.
So Niittymaki became Frank in honor of long-dead prohibition-era Chicago gangster Frank The Enforcer Nitti, made famous in [...]

Calgary put the Lightning through the grindstone Saturday, but it was Tampa Bay that came out polished on the other side.
Andrej Meszaros scored 1:57 into overtime to cap a comeback in a 2-1 Lightning victory, Tampa Bays third in a row. Steven Stamkos scored his 32nd of the season one minute into the third to [...]

The Americans didnt believe in miracles. They just believed.
And they pulled off the biggest Olympic hockey upset since the Miracle on Ice, stunning Canada 5-3 on Sunday to advance to the quarterfinals of an already mixed-up tournament.
Brian Rafalski scored two goals, Ryan Miller held off a flurry of shots and the Americans quieted a raucous, [...]

It took nearly all 60 minutes for the US hockey team to get the blowout it wanted.
Nursing a two-goal lead for much of the final two periods, the Americans broke it open against Norway on Thursday when defenseman Brian Rafalski scored twice in the final three minutes of a 6-1 victory.
Phil Kessel and Chris Drury [...]

Slovakia showed the mighty Russians that talent alone doesnt cut it in Olympic hockey.
Again.
Pavol Demitra scored on the Slovaks seventh attempt in a shootout and Jaroslav Halak made some 36 saves, lifting them to a 2-1 win over Russia on Thursday night in another thriller at the Vancouver Games.
We show we can play hockey, too, [...]

If nothing else, a national anxiety attack was averted.
Canadas 8-0 thumping of Norway on Tuesday evening in the sport that doubles as the civic religion was fine as far as it went.
They started slow against a hot goalkeeper, but strung together five goals in the third period and wound up staging a clinic. Even so, [...]

The Ottawa Senators acquired center Matt Cullen from the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday in exchange for defenseman Alexandre Picard and a draft pick.
The trade gives the Northeast Division-leading Senators a forward with significant postseason experience. Cullen was a valuable third-line center on the Hurricanes team that won the 2006 Stanley Cup and reached the Eastern [...]

The youngest collection of American hockey players since the NHL began supplying the talent for the 1998 Nagano Games opened this tournament with a workmanlike 3-1 victory over Switzerland on Tuesday.
Bobby Ryan scored late in the first period, and David Backes and Ryan Malone added goals in the second to help the United States avoid [...]

Getzlaf, who had injured his ankle when he become tangled up with Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Brown in Monday nights NHL tilt, underwent an MRI last Tuesday. The results were inconclusive at the time, leading Team Canada Executive Director Steve Yzerman to ask Philadelphia Flyers forward Jeff Carter to be on standby as a [...]