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Jays 6, Rays 2: Notes from a sloppy loss

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG The dome field advantage is a distant memory now for the Rays, who followed a 10-game home winning streak with losses in six of their last eight home games. ...
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Maddon: Keppinger to be out 3 to 4 weeks

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG Rays manager Joe Maddon said Jeff Keppinger will be out three to four weeks with a broken big toe on his right foot suffered Saturday. Keppinger was sitting in the...
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Pierre-Cedric Labrie’s Overtime Goal Gives Admirals 3-0 Series Lead

NHL.com Tied 0-0 and entering overtime in Game 3 of a series they were leading 2-0, the Norfolk Admirals were faced with a situation on Monday night where they needed a clutch goal to continue their...
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Rays acquire versatile INF Drew Sutton

Tampa Bay Online The Rays acquired INF Drew Sutton from the Pirates for a player to be named later. The team is expected to place INF Jeff Keppinger on the disabled list with a toe injury. Sutton was traded...
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No. 1 Reason the Lightning are Primed for Success: Proven Prospects

NHL.com Believe it or not, there was a silver lining peering out amongst the shades of black and blue that appeared this past season as a result of the numerous injuries throughout the Lightning...
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Braves@Rays: The Notables

Tampa Bay Online ST. PETERSBURG – One pitch. That’s the only thing Rays LHP David Price would change from Sunday’s 2-0 loss against the Atlanta Braves at Tropicana Field. Price (6-3, 2.88...
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Braves blank Rays, 2-0

Tampa Bay Online ST. PETERSBURG – The Tampa Bay Rays had precious few opportunities on Sunday afternoon, but squandered them all in a 2-0 loss against the Atlanta Braves before 24,579 fans at Tropicana...
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Braves@Rays: The Finale

Tampa Bay Online ST. PETERSBURG—The Rays will wrap up a three-game series today against the Atlanta Braves at Tropicana Field. First pitch is 1:40 p.m. The Rays will go with LHP David Price (6-2, 3.10 ERA),...
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Admirals Use 3-1 Win To Take 2-0 Eastern Conference Finals Lead

NHL.com This season, the Norfolk Admirals made history when they won a pro-hockey record 28 straight games to finish the regular season.On Saturday night, the Admirals won their fourth straight game by...
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Rays v Braves: Rhymes returns

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG Will Rhymes returns to the lineup and Alex Cobb returns to the rotation this afternoon against the visiting Braves. Rhymes, drilled on his right forearm by a 95 mph...
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Cobb to start Saturday vs. Braves

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG Alex Cobb will be recalled from Triple A Durham and start Saturday against the visiting Braves at Tropicana Field, taking the turn of Jeff Niemann, who suffered a...
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Best of the Web: Week of May 11-18

NHL.com We’ll recap this week starting with an incredible story from former Lightning forward Shawn Burr, who for years fought hard on the ice, but now is fighting even harder for his life.Burr is...
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Red Sox 5, Rays 3: Rays 10-game run through AL East ends at .500

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG The Rays ended a 10-game stretch through the AL East on Wednesday with a 5-3 loss to the visiting Red Sox. Matt Moore turned in the best start of the season when he...
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6-1 Win Gives Norfolk Admirals 1-0 Series Lead

NHL.com In any playoff series, there’s a feeling-out process for a pair of opposing teams in a Game 1.If Thursday night’s Game 1 was any indication of how the Norfolk Admirals and St. John’s IceCaps match...
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Day 14 World Championships Round Up

NHL.com The Lightning players endured a rough day on Thursday at the 2012 IIHF World Championships.Team USA, Team Canada and Team Sweden each saw their tournament experience come to an end with losses in...
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Zim returns to the Trop

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG Don Zimmer made it out to Tropicana Field on Thursday afternoon, sat in the seats behind home plate and watched the Rays take batting practice. “It’s...
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Rays v Red Sox: Of Rhymes, Thompson, Zim and Astro

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG Busy afternoon at the Trop. Will Rhymes is not in the lineup but wouldn’t be because the Red Sox are throwing left-hander Felix Doubront. Joe Maddon said he...
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Admirals/IceCaps Gameday Notebook

NHL.com After nearly a week since their last game, the Norfolk Admirals resume their drive towards a Calder Cup by beginning their best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals series against the Winnipeg Jets’...
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Rays 2, Red Sox 1: One interesting night at the ballyard

Tampa Bay Online ROGER MOONEY ST. PETERSBURG Another player placed on the DL, another arrival by a new player delayed by weather, another injury to a player, another win. Just a normal day in the life of the...
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Draft Analysis: The Year of the North American Defenseman

NHL.com Defensemen Scott Stevens of New Jersey and Detroit's Nicklas Lidstrom were named Conn Smythe Trophy winners during the time the 2012 draft class was beginning to play hockey. Whether the two great...
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Blog Articles

Times' Stroud, Jones to host WDAE morning show

TampaBay.com (fpastor) — Tampa Bay Times sportswriters Tom Jones and Rick Stroud will star in a new weekday morning show for sports radio station WDAE-AM (620), sparking a closer alliance between the newspaper and...
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East final: Tight, tied

Tampa Bay Online The Eastern Conference finals between the New Jersey Devils and rival New York Rangers are turning out to be exactly what everyone thought.
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Former Lightning pick lands USHL coaching job

TampaBay.com (fpastor) — David Carle, who the Lightning selected with its final pick of the 2008 draft days after he was diagnosed with a deadly heart condition , has landed a job as an assistant with a USHL team. ...
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Many hurdles to overcome before G Riku Helenius would return to the Tampa Bay Lightning

TampaBay.com (Damian Cristodero) — Though the Tampa Bay Lightning has "tested the waters" to see if goaltender Riku Helenius wants to return to the Lightning, assistant general manager Julien BriseBois was...
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Lightning interested in G Helenius returning

Tampa Bay Online The Lightning have interest in bringing back former first-round draft pick goaltender Riku Helenius, general manager Steve Yzerman said Wednesday.
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Tampa Bay Lightning GM Yzerman says he, among others, interested in Swiss star Damien Brunner

TampaBay.com (Damian Cristodero) — Part of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s summer to-do list is to find a top-six forward. That is why general manager Steve Yzerman, at the world championship in Helsinki, Finland, is keeping a...
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Tampa Bay Lightning, down an assistant with Wayne Fleming ailing, might hire a coaching consultant

TampaBay.com (Damian Cristodero) — Fleming, 61, "is not seeing a lot of improvement right now," said general manager Steve Yzerman, who added he has no plans at this time to hire another full-time...
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Injured Tampa Bay Lightning D Mattias Ohlund: "I want to give myself another chance to play"

TampaBay.com (Damian Cristodero) — Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Mattias Ohlund is at the Tampa Bay Times Forum five days a week rehabbing from February’s major surgery on his left knee. Doctors used a layer of titanium to...
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12:30: Chat live with Tom Jones

TampaBay.com (fpastor) — Want to talk about the NHL or NBA playoffs, the Rays-Yankees series, the Bucs' offseason, sports on TV/radio? Join Times sports personality Tom Jones for a live chat today, from 12:30-1:30 p.m....
  • 12 days ago
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Capitals beat Rangers, force Game 7 in NHL East semifinals

Tampa Bay Online Alex Ovechkin rebounded from a rare zero-shot performance by scoring after 88 seconds Wednesday night, Braden Holtby made 30 saves, and the Washington Capitals recovered from a potentially...
  • 12 days ago
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Ex-Lightning coach Ludzik reveals battle with Parkinson's

Tampa Bay Online At age 51, Steve Ludzik has ended a decade of silence and revealed his ongoing battle against a brain disorder that also afflicts Muhammad Ali and actor Michael J. Fox.
  • 13 days ago
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Lightning's Ohlund says he hopes to play again

Tampa Bay Online While a story on a Swedish newspaper site Tuesday set off speculation Mattias Ohlund is retiring, the veteran Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman said he hopes to be able to play again.
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Goaltending clear focus of NHL draft talk for Bolts

Tampa Bay Online The Lightning have a gaping hole when it comes to the team's play in goal.
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Goaltending clear focus of draft talk for Bolts

Tampa Bay Online The Lightning have a gaping hole when it comes to the team's play in goal.
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Goaltending clear focus of draft talk

Tampa Bay Online The Lightning have a gaping hole when it comes to the team's play in goal.
  • 14 days ago
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Tampa Forum adding record-size high-def video board

Tampa Bay Online The extreme makeover at the home of the Tampa Bay Lightning goes high-def this summer.
  • 18 days ago
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Tampa Forum adding record-size high-def video board

Tampa Bay Online The extreme makeover at the home of the Tampa Bay Lightning goes high-def this summer.
  • 18 days ago
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Tampa Forum adding record-size high-def video board

Tampa Bay Online The extreme makeover at the home of the Tampa Bay Lightning goes high-def this summer.
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