Tampa Bay Lightning rocked by Pontus Holmberg’s injury and league investigation during crushing 4-2 loss to Buffalo Sabres. Can the Bolts recover and secure home ice with the Atlantic Division tightening by the day?
Host Nick Morgan recaps the high-stakes matchup, spotlighting Sabres’ emerging dominance, Nikita Kucherov’s 400th goal, and the Lightning’s special teams struggles. He unpacks John Cooper’s fiery response to the controversial penalty box incident and mounting officiating frustrations. With Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli’s health in doubt, the Lightning must lean on Nick Paul, Corey Perry, and Gage Goncalves as they face a desperate Ottawa Senators squad. Playoff implications, depth challenges, and keys to victory for Tampa Bay headline the discussion. Can the Lightning rediscover their edge when it matters most?
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15 Comments
I don't think it was a good game by the lightning at all. Power play was disgusting. And we take way too many penalties as usual
That's what he said… he said both ways. He didn't complain about it being one sided… he said for both teams.
LETS GO SABRES
Really happy to be a Sabres fan! Been waiting for this forever and to play the way they did against a perennial playoff team this year is awesome for this fan base. I’m still worried we don’t have that 1c like Tampa has with kuch but great games between these two
IMO, last night's game was the most important game of the remainder of the season. We would have had 104 points and would have been 1st place in the conference. Losing in regulation to the Sabres was a 4 point swing. We have the hardest schedule in the east for games remaining and I don't see us winning all of them. At best, I say we go 3/5 and I am not sure that is enough to secure 1st place.
Good chuckle hearing the Lightning concerned about player safety. Jon "we aren't good enough so play dirty" Cooper spittin bars.
I guess the Sabres can do more than play river hockey
Dipshit did it to himself lol GO SABRES!!!
best chant of the night was “we want hagel” and “we hate tampa” 🙏🙏 (i was there)
Ok so Hedman, Carlile, Crozier, James, Holmberg, Cerelli, and Hagel all injured with playoffs a week away, another 1st round exit heading our way?
The door incident was a total one in a million fluke…it's unfortunate but that could happen any time any game when someone leaves the box…the timing of it was ridiculous a total fluke
That's cause a player was about to exit the box and Krebs threw the hit at the same time. Incidental, the attendant has been doing that job for Buffalo since 1983. Cooper is a cry baby and can't accept that they have been surpassed by Buffalo this year 😂
As a Sabres fan, I feel bad for Holmberg, but it was 100% an accident and it’s ridiculous to cause a league investigation into a penalty box. He went face first into the regular part of the boards, he would’ve been hurt regardless.
Hagel is a 🐈 pooooooossssssay
Is it just me…but were the Sabers fans booing Holmberg as he was laying on the ice? Did they think it was embellishment? That whole situation was just bad. His head took a hard hit too, he was seeing stars.