WATCH Lightning pay tribute to Blades of Steel with on-ice projection

The technological advancements in projection systems have been manna for the folks in charge of in-game entertainment at sporting events in recent years. The hardwood in the NBA and the frozen water in the NHL have provided the perfect canvases for stunning 3D visuals that have been wowing crowds for about the last two years or so.However, it seems like weve kind of seen it Ish Smith Jersey all these days. A lot of teams in the NHL and NBA have them and there hasnt been a whole lot of new ground being covered. Weve seen the ice looking like its breaking about 50 different ways now.The , which is the owner of one of the very best projection shows in sports, is taking the medium Troy Brown Jr. Jersey to new heights, though. At least if you're a child of the 1980s and early 1990s Admiral Schofield Jersey . As part of some intermi sion entertainment recently, the team used their projection system to hit the nostalgia button for any hockey fan that owned or knew someone that owned an original Nintendo.The Lightning turned the ice surface of Amalie Arena into a larger-than-life-sized version of , the extremely popular Konami video game that anyone who even had moderate interest in hockey has played at least once in their lives. It's pretty great. The game, which predates the Lightning as it was released in Michael Jordan Jersey 1988, featured no NHL team names, but had the cities of many major NHL markets. From the music, to the digitized announcer who would yell things like HIT THE PASS and FIGHT, it Shabazz Napier Jersey was pretty awesome for the period.The Lightning even got the scoreboard involved, with it looking exactly like it does in the game. As someone who grew up on , everyone else can stop doing the projection thing. Youll never top this in my book. The only way it can be topped is if the Lightning make it playable and let me spend my summer there.