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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.

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