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Game Preview: Toronto Maple Leafs at Tampa Bay Lightning

What's that Stamkos? Sorry, can't hear through the 10 M / 8 year contract they made me bring.

MAPLE LEAFS (17-20-9) at LIGHTNING (26-18-4)

7:00 PM - AMALIE ARENA

TV: SPORTSNET ; RADIO: FAN 590

The Tampa Bay Lightning are not the toughest team to play against on this peninsular part of the United States, any more. Yesterday I talked about how nothing explains the Cats' success. Today, at least, I can talk about what explains TBL's lack of success lately, what hamstrung them during their early season slump.

The answer is as plain as a very tall person named Andrej Sustr in the middle of the ice: TBL's bottom four D kind of suck.