Sound bites

Thoughts and observations from Tuesday's Lightning broadcast:

Play-by-play man Rick Peckham doesn't waver too much in his delivery, but he put a little something extra on his goal call in overtime. And analyst Bobby "Chief" Taylor was quick to praise coach John Tortorella's time out right before the goal, saying it calmed his players down.

Taylor let defenseman Stan Neckar off the hook for Dainius Zubrus' goal. The replay showed Neckar whiffing on the puck and deflecting it perfectly to Zubrus. Taylor called the goal ugly, a better description for Neckar's effort.

Sunshine gave us a graphic showing that Zubrus' last two-point game was April5 vs. Pittsburgh (who cares?), but minutes later had nothing to back-up Peckham's claim that faceoffs were killing the Lightning.

What was the deal with some of the cameras dimming the shot? Shots from the corners and one lower mid-ice camera looked like they were shooting through tinted windows. A little aggravating, to say the least.

Both Peckham and Taylor remarked early that neither could remember the last time they saw left wing Ruslan Fedotenko on the ice. And that was that. Couldn't sideline reporter Mike Nabors have chased that down?

Peckham was right on in saying the Lightning's reluctance to dump the puck in was hurting the team midway through the game.

The second Capital goal caromed off a Lightning player's "derriere." Almost as funny in print as it was coming out of Taylor's mouth.

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