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Tampa Bay Lightning General Manager Brian Lawton has done it again. His team is in ninth in the Eastern Conference, just a single point out of the playoffs, yet he couldn't help himself. The team had grown together, playing some excellent hockey in the third quarter of the season before a late slump before the Olympic break dropped them behind the pack. Yet the General Manager cares nothing for consistency, belief in a system, or chemistry. The same General Manager who traded perennial all-stars Brad Richards and Dan Boyle for what amounted to a bag of hockey pucks decided to interject himself into the Lightning's locker room, firing associate coach Wes Walz and promoting one of his cronies, Jim Johnson, to Walz's position. It's a shocking move, as head coach Rick Tocchet was not even con ...

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