Thanks for the year!

Thank-you Lightning for another great year! Granted, we didn't do as well as we would have liked, but I still love you guys. We did a few things right though: Got rid of some overpaid talent, brought in some fresh gritty blood, and got a lot of playing time for our 2 young net minders. I'm looking forward to next year...it'll be good if we can turn around 1 thing in the stats column...

<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" width="100%" border="0"> <tbody> <tr class="bg2" id="header" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td class="bg4" align="left"> Player</td> <td class="bg4" align="left"> GP</td> <td class="bg4" align="left"> G</td> <td class="bg4" align="left"> A</td> <td class="bg4" align="left"> PTS</td> <td class="bg4" align="left"> +/-</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Vincent Lecavalier</td> <td align="right"> 81</td> <td align="right"> 40</td> <td align="right"> 52</td> <td align="right"> 92</td> <td align="right"> -17</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Martin St. Louis</td> <td align="right"> 82</td> <td align="right"> 25</td> <td align="right"> 58</td> <td align="right"> 83</td> <td align="right"> -23</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Jeff Halpern</td> <td align="right"> 83</td> <td align="right"> 20</td> <td align="right"> 22</td> <td align="right"> 42</td> <td align="right"> 0</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Jussi Jokinen</td> <td align="right"> 72</td> <td align="right"> 16</td> <td align="right"> 26</td> <td align="right"> 42</td> <td align="right"> -14</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Michel Ouellet</td> <td align="right"> 64</td> <td align="right"> 17</td> <td align="right"> 19</td> <td align="right"> 36</td> <td align="right"> 11</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Filip Kuba</td> <td align="right"> 75</td> <td align="right"> 6</td> <td align="right"> 25</td> <td align="right"> 31</td> <td align="right"> -8</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Paul Ranger</td> <td align="right"> 72</td> <td align="right"> 10</td> <td align="right"> 21</td> <td align="right"> 31</td> <td align="right"> -13</td> </tr> <tr class="bgFan" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Dan Boyle</td> <td align="right"> 37</td> <td align="right"> 4</td> <td align="right"> 21</td> <td align="right"> 25</td> <td align="right"> -29</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Mathieu Darche</td> <td align="right"> 73</td> <td align="right"> 7</td> <td align="right"> 15</td> <td align="right"> 22</td> <td align="right"> -14</td> </tr> <tr class="bg2" valign="middle" align="right" height="17"> <td align="left"> Chris Gratton</td> <td align="right"> 60</td> <td align="right"> 10</td> <td align="right"> 11</td> <td align="right"> 21</td> <td align="right"> -7</td> </tr> <tr class="bg1" align="left"> <td colspan="10"> Goalies</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Our plus/minus stats. Ouch those are bad!

Thanks again Lightning and once again I'll be right there beside you guys the whole way next year.

Go Bolts!

lol...gotta remember not to copy and paste stats columns!

Long story short: Our top ten point scorers attained 425 total points with a combined minus 115 out of a combined 699 games played this year. Minus 115...yikes!

LOL   Misssion partly accomplished already. We got rid of Richards and Prospal!  Well, Prospal was actually a good dump anyway, but Richards on our awful second line was made to look bad.

Thrasson, what is the situation withe the new owners?

Any word on who we are drafting?

i want Torts to stay because he likes an explosive team built with defensemen who can play offense. I agree with his philosophy on hockey. Don't know how much I like him otherwise, but he has a Cup and he must get TONS of CREDIT for the Cup. Love our GM Feaster.

Haven't heard much about the new owners. The current word is that Torts will remain coach and the roster will not change a lot...but as you know, all that could change this summer.

We just need a new goalie coach lol. I don't even know our current guys name, but we have 2 youngsters in net that can be molded by the right coach.