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Many layers to Bolts' latest struggles

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Friday, February 20, 2009

TAMPA -- The temptation is to paint the entire Tampa Bay Lightning season with the same broad brush. Color it laughingstock, disaster or just plain wacky; but, in the end, color it a disaster. But to do so would not do justice to a picture that is far more complex, all angles and subtle bits and pieces and shadows and corners. Think Salvador Dali with skates and a wrong-handed stick and you get an idea of the elements at play in this market, where, not so long ago, they held a Stanley Cup para ...

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