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Bolts preseason second competition: defense depth
It's been a truth since mid-July that the Lightning have a pleasant little issue on the blue line. I say "pleasant" because, in retrospect, this is an issue you'd rather the Bolts have than the issue that the team had last season. That issue is defense: Too many bodies and not enough roster...
Lightning continue the Wild times, ink Kurtis Foster
A day after Stephane Veilleux inked a deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning, another former member of the Minnesota Wild joins the show in Tampa. Defenseman Kurtis Foster has been signed. Foster has bounced around in his career -- drafted by the Calgary Flames, broke into the NHL with the Atlanta...
2009 Nebraska Football Spring Preview: Defensive Secondary Depth Means Flexibility
The 2008 Husker secondary wasn’t nearly as thin as the linebacking unit, but it entered the season with only two consistent starters - cornerback Armando Murillo and strong safety Larry Asante. Murillo started every game in 2007 and in 2008 started every game but Western Michigan when he was...
Defensive Hole, Offensive Addition
The Lightning lost Matt Smaby on Friday at the Verizon Center with that "lower body injury" thing that's going around (sidenote: will the team please stop treating injuries like a state secret? Injury exploitation isn't a factor when you are playing like crap anyway). Another defensiveman lost,...
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