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Tampa Bay Lightning turn rink into an enormous NES game

Remember “Blades of Steel,” the NES hockey game that let you fight? The Tampa Bay Lightning do, and they turned their entire dang rink into a version of it.

The Tampa Bay Lightning did something pretty incredible during Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals. During one of the intermissions, the team used a light display to turn the entire rink into a gigantic version of the 1980's NES hockey game "Blades of Steel."

They called it “Bolts of Steel” - because they’re the Lightning -- and let the CPUs play for a few minutes using the same technology used to show huge projections on the ice for pregame hype purposes.

Pretty good, Lightning, pretty good. But next time you have to let two lucky fans actually control the game.

★★★

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