What We Learned: When do the Tampa Bay Lightning start to worry?
The Tampa Bay Lightning have bigger problems than who's in goal right now.
Obviously you don't want to be in a situation where Jonas Johansson is getting a majority of your starts for any percentage of a given season, but the fact is that right now, Johansson could be standing on his head — and to be clear, he is predictably not doing that, though he also hasn't been as bad as one might have expected — and still, the Bolts wouldn't be putting themselves in a position to win a lot of games.
The stats tell the story pretty effectively: The Lightning have been badly outshot (minus-48 through just six games), and are only hovering at .500 because they're shooting 11.4 percent as a team. The underlying numbers are baffling, though. They're 23rd in all-situations expected-goals percentage. Their a