Just when you thought it was safe to look, the Bolts do it again. Having started in some fine form, Tampa has slipped back to some recent bad habits, like throwing away leads and going on losing streaks of nightmarish proportions.
Here is Erik Erlendsson in the Tampa Bay Tribune telling it like it is.
Tampa Bay's season is dangerously close to dropping into oblivion again.
Tampa Bay's stretch of games with only one win reached 11 on Thursday after falling 3-0 to Detroit, dropping Tampa Bay's record to 1-12-1 all-time at Joe Louis Arena. The shutout loss is the fourth time in the past 10 games the Lightning have been kept off the board.
With four games complete on a season-long, six-game road trip, Tampa Bay is 0-3-1 and has been shut out twice.
The latest loss comes following a game in which Tampa Bay felt some momentum had been built up despite a 7-4 loss in Nashville. And it came against an undermanned Detroit team that featured seven regulars out of the lineup to start the game, a number that climbed to eight after a Mattias Ohlund hit knocked out Red Wings star Henrik Zetterberg in the first period.
Check out Erik's always excellent words of wisdom here
But the question remains: what are the Bolts going to do next?
Road trips to St Louis and New York might not yield much in the way of joy just yet. Let's just hope that the four straight home games they have before the start of 2010 will give us reason to be cheerful...
(We're not holding our breath)
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