by Erik Erlendsson | @Erik_Erlendsson | Like us on Facebook

December, 11, 2016

TAMPA, Fla. – The sense of frustration is starting to mount. It’s not hard to notice as the Lightning’s losing ways continue an antagonizing trend.

Tampa Bay has one win in the past eight games. They have not won a regulation game since a third-period rally to knock off Philadelphia on Nov. 23, the day before Thanksgiving. That’s more than two weeks without a victory (the lone win in that span came in a shootout against Washington).

Teams go through tough stretches in any season. Few teams are immune from enduring extended parts of the schedule where results are just not coming.

The Lightning are in the middle of one right now. But it cannot go on much longer. Whatever leaks are dragging down the ship must be plugged – soon.

Otherwise the season is going to go down in a disaster.

But we are not there quite yet, the season is not lost.

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