You might recognize the "Lighting the Lamp" feature from the Game Time paper. Rick Ackerman has been nice enough to send over his column for the website. "Lighting the Lamp" will be featured every home game day.
Lighting the Lamp with Rick Ackerman
The St. Louis Blues found themselves in a peculiar kind of hell before the game in Los Angeles as they had lost six of eight games since Christmas without a single victory in regulation time. They were having a devil of a time this new year without a win in the four previous games in 2016.