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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
John Henderson McConnell was the founder of Worthington Industries, which manufactures processed steel products, pressure cylinders, and metal framing. He was the founder, majority owner, chairman, and governor of the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL team.
John H. McConnell
May 10, 1923 - April 25, 2008
R.I.P.
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Regular season and first period of the playoffs: Outscored 20-3 by the Bolts
2nd period of game 1 through game 4:
Outscored the Bolts 19-5.
What a turnaround.
2nd period of game 1 through game 4:
Outscored the Bolts 19-5.
What a turnaround.
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Um. Yeah. I'm starting to think I might have been wrong with this post when they hired Torts.
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With Harrington, Kukan, and Clendenen as 3 of the d-men. I'm still in shock.
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It is mind boggling but after period 1 of game 1 the CBJ dominated this series. I already see a lot of the “lightning choked” narrative. They got badly outplayed for the greater part of this series though. Funny what a team full of players playing for contracts essentially can do.
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It's gonna be fun if Toronto actually beats Boston, which is by no means a guarantee given their history.
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Cooper: Ousted Lightning victims of own success
The Tampa Bay Lightning will be defined by their failure, swept out of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs in the first round by a Columbus Blue Jackets team that few thought had a prayer of hanging with the Presidents' Trophy winners.
That's one way to look at them.
Here's the spin the Lightning had after Tuesday night's stunning 7-3 defeat in Game 4 of the first round: They were victims of their own success.
The Lightning had 128 points in the regular season, with a points percentage of .780, the second-highest rate for an 82-game season in NHL history, behind only the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings (.799). They tied that Red Wings team with 62 wins, the most recorded in the 100-plus-year history of NHL hockey. They clinched a playoff spot after just 68 games and were coasting well before reaching that mark. They weren't just winning -- they were crushing opponents. They had the league's best power play and best penalty kill, and they were the highest-scoring team on average (3.89) since Detroit in that 1995-96 season. Of their 62 wins, 30 were by a margin of three or more goals, which was tied for the most since 1992-93.
It all came so easily for Tampa Bay -- until it didn't.
"When you have the amount of points we had, it's a blessing and a curse, in a way. You don't play any meaningful hockey for a long time. Then all of a sudden, you have to ramp it up. It's not an excuse. It's reality," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said after Game 4. "That's how it goes: You have a historic regular season, and we had a historic playoff."
Indeed, the Lightning made history in the 2019 playoffs -- just not the kind any coach would want. For the first time in league history, a team with the most points in the regular season failed to win a game in an opening-round, seven-game series.
"If we had the answers, we would have found a way to win a game. It sucks," Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos said.
There are some obvious factors behind the Lightning's stunning demise:
The Tampa Bay Lightning will be defined by their failure, swept out of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs in the first round by a Columbus Blue Jackets team that few thought had a prayer of hanging with the Presidents' Trophy winners.
That's one way to look at them.
Here's the spin the Lightning had after Tuesday night's stunning 7-3 defeat in Game 4 of the first round: They were victims of their own success.
The Lightning had 128 points in the regular season, with a points percentage of .780, the second-highest rate for an 82-game season in NHL history, behind only the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings (.799). They tied that Red Wings team with 62 wins, the most recorded in the 100-plus-year history of NHL hockey. They clinched a playoff spot after just 68 games and were coasting well before reaching that mark. They weren't just winning -- they were crushing opponents. They had the league's best power play and best penalty kill, and they were the highest-scoring team on average (3.89) since Detroit in that 1995-96 season. Of their 62 wins, 30 were by a margin of three or more goals, which was tied for the most since 1992-93.
It all came so easily for Tampa Bay -- until it didn't.
"When you have the amount of points we had, it's a blessing and a curse, in a way. You don't play any meaningful hockey for a long time. Then all of a sudden, you have to ramp it up. It's not an excuse. It's reality," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said after Game 4. "That's how it goes: You have a historic regular season, and we had a historic playoff."
Indeed, the Lightning made history in the 2019 playoffs -- just not the kind any coach would want. For the first time in league history, a team with the most points in the regular season failed to win a game in an opening-round, seven-game series.
"If we had the answers, we would have found a way to win a game. It sucks," Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos said.
There are some obvious factors behind the Lightning's stunning demise:
- The Blue Jackets put on a defensive clinic in the series, playing a 1-2-2 forecheck that slowed the pace, owned the neutral zone and never allowed the Lightning to find their way offensively. The Jackets had 30 takeaways in four games, while Tampa Bay had 21. "Columbus is pretty good at shutting it down. They never did that in the regular season because they were always chasing us," Cooper said. "The last time we played here, we had a 5-1 lead, and they had completely outplayed us. We just scored every time we went down the ice."
- Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovsky had the best postseason series of his career, with a .932 save percentage and a 2.01 goals-against average. Even when the Lightning broke through the Columbus defense, Bobrovsky made key saves. In contrast, Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy finished the series with an .856 save percentage and a 3.82 goals-against average.
- Perhaps the biggest disparity was on special teams. The Lightning had the most effective power play since 1988-89 in the regular season, at 28.1 percent. They were playing a team, however, that was short-handed the fewest times in the regular season. The Lightning scored once on just six power-play opportunities in this series; the Blue Jackets, meanwhile, were a stellar 5-for-10 with the man advantage. "No power plays. One PP in two games. It's tough. I don't know what to say," said Nikita Kucherov, the Lightning's star winger who won the NHL scoring title this season.
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