Lightning makes 'honest mistake'

Left … errrr … right off the bat

Steve Stamkos has a right-handed shot. He signs autographs with his right hand. You'd figure those were clues to the agency the Lightning hired to put together the 47-foot tall collage of four players, including Stamkos, hanging on an outer wall of the St. Pete Times Forum. Alas, Stamkos, the No. 1 overall pick in last weekend's draft, the player being hyped as the next face of the franchise, is shown, 10 feet tall, holding his stick left-handed. "We made an honest mistake," team spokesman Bill Wickett said Friday. "It is going to be changed." Because Stamkos, shown in an action pose, had never played in a Tampa Bay uniform, Wickett said, Stamkos' head was Photoshopped on the image of another player and his No. 91 inserted.

Damian Cristodero, Times staff writer