Congratulations on everyone to surviving the first half of the 2024-25 Tampa Bay Lightning season. The Bolt’s 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday marked their 41st game of the season and marked the official midway mark. Hopefully, the up-and-down nature of the season so far hasn’t caused too much turmoil in your life, and y’all are going to be okay for the next 41 games (well, technically 39 because we’re posting this a few days after the halfway point).
Before we get too much further along in this breakdown, the prosecution (you, The Commenterri) will concede that this is an overall view of the season, while the defense (us, the writers) concede that the Lightning are currently going through a rough stretch.