East Coast bias and the Tampa Bay Lightning's western road trip

As posted on Raw Charge....

The Lightning are starting a four-game, seven-day road trip out West. That’s a strange thing for me to say, since I grew up on the West Coast. For me, it should be an "Eastern road trip".

Those hockey fans in the Eastern Conference have no idea how easy they have it. The entire conference is in one time zone. There’s no trying to figure out what time the game starts in, say, Colorado or St. Louis, because it’s all either going to be at 7 or 7:30 pm. If you guess later and are wrong, then you’ve only missed part of the first period. No big deal. That’s not always the case in the Western Conference.

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Inaugural Hockey Recon Post: What Scares Us the Most in this Year’s NHL

Welcome Ghouls and Boos, Scaredy Cats and Paijabas to Hockey Recon’s inaugural blog post. Happy Halloween all! Before we throw on our broken spectacles, Chiefs jerseys and prosthetic fake teeth to head out for a little “check or treat”, we thought we’d kick off the launch of our Blog- our Collective in the Crease- by sharing with you all the things that keep us sleeping with a mouth guard in and one eye open, our Peter Forsberg night lights on bright, writhing in a cold sweat, unable to sleep for fear of waking to find Lou Lamareillo’s head at the foot of our bed with Glen Sather standing over us ominously prepared to plunge a sharpened goalie stick into our hearts.

This is what most terrifies each of us in this year’s NHL:

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Hockey Recon, Coming Soon: Your Favorite Hockey Bloggers get Scared!

Welcome to the new, soon to be launched sports blog: "Hockey Recon", soon to become your favorite place to follow all things involving a mouthguard, 2 blades of steel on a sheet of ice.  

Hockey Recon is the new consortium in the crease of a group of stellar hockey bloggers who have decided to reconnect and pull their efforts together to bring you their best- and often funniest- hockey analysis in one place.

Please check the "Hockey Recon Team Uncovered" page to see who our individual contributing Authors are and come back for more at the end of the week to find some of your favorite bloggers reveal What scares them the most about this year's NHL..

See you soon and thank you for following us!