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# Tampa BAE Lightning: Game 45 & 46 Post Mortem
- URL: https://www.bayareaexaminer.com/tampa-bae-lightning-game-45-and-46-48e/
- Published: 2025-01-22T03:39:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-22T03:39:14.000Z
- Description: An ode to days past
- Author: Collin Sherwin
- Tags: #Migrated-1792597384348, #Import 2026-10-21 15:44

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedGames in hand, futile  
Division race tightening  
January pain

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The Bolts have dropped both game of their back-to-back. I mentioned before how these two games mattered a lot—and they did. The Lightning have virtually no games in hand on their division opponents and are sitting with the fewest amount of division points of any team in the NHL currently.

Not only that, we had previously discussed in #pro-hockey (on [the Bay Area Examiner Discord](https://discord.gg/UptuMwbh?ref=bayareaexaminer.com)) how the Lightning really needed to gain 18 points in January for it to be considered successful. They can still do it provided they do not lose again this month. And does that really seem plausible based on what we’ve seen?

*\*shakes magic 8 ball\**

Huh. Why does it say “Uproarious Laughter”? …that’s good, right? Right?

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