Game 78 - Carolina at Tampa Bay

The Lightning put together a pretty good game last night. They had a lot of jump at the beginning, and they managed to keep the lead to the end. It's nice to see that happen.

Ramo had a great night. I think it's interesting how goalies tend to do better the more they play. It makes sense, tho, if you think about it. I mean, if you're in that mentality of having to play every game and needing to improve upon your last performance, then that's probably more helpful than to play once every week or so where you start thinking too much about things.

It was a solid effort by the entire team. It seems to be something that this team hasn't been able to do - for whatever reason - this season consistently. But when they are able to do it, then they tend to either stay close or win the game. They did that before the trade deadline, and it's still going on now.

My one pet peeve all season, tho, has been a lack of shots on goal. I mean, I'm all for playing well defensively, but if you don't have the offense to back it up then it doesn't usually get you very far. Tampa Bay got very lucky in the third period with only 3 shots on goal. I'm of the opinion that you can never have too many shots on goal.

I was having a similar discussion about college basketball last night. My pet peeve for men's basketball is that no one does offensive rebounding - and barely does any defensive rebounding. All the guys on the court just admire the shot, and if it doesn't go in they're not sure what to do. It's nuts. Of course, when I played basketball in high school, rebounding is what screwed up my ankle - because I kept landing on other people's feet. But that's another story, I guess.

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