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Stamkos had a goal and an assist in last night game against the Colorado Avalanche. Both points came during power plays in the third period.

Unfortunately, this was not enough for the lightning since Colorado defeated Tampa Bay 4-3.

Stamkos showed off his fighting skills for the first time in his NHL career last Wednesday against the New York Rangers when he dropped the gloves against another young star, Nikolai Zherdev.

Steven first gave a good body check to Zherdev, who didn’t appreciate the gesture. Zherdev followed Steven Stamkos, and after some pushing and shoving, the two young hockey players dropped the gloves to the pleasure of the crowd.

Stamkos got a couple of good rights in, but, all and all, I call this one a draw.

The Lighting gave Barry Melrose the boot, but Steven Stamkos certainly won’t be loosing sleep over it. New interim coach, Rick Tocchet took over and is trying to restore confidence to young Stamkos by giving him more (deserved) ice time.

While Melrose was coach, Steven never played more than 15 minutes in a single game. Against Carolina, earlier this week, Stamkos touched ice for 17:55 minutes, during which he had an assist and had nine shots on net. He even started the game alongside Vinny Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis.

Tocchet plans on giving more ice time to the rookie - time will tell what Steve will do with it.