The Tampa Bay Lightning are giving away free tickets this afternoon to the Bolts home opener Monday night, in what just might be the coolest promotion ever: a ticket scavenger hunt.

The Bolts have hidden a pair of tickets to Monday's game with the Panthers at the St. Pete Times Forum somewhere in the bay area for fans to find. Their official website is showing a map of their location via satellite but the image is zoomed out all the way. The official Lightning twitter account (@tblightning) is encouraging fans to tweet #BeTheThunder and for each tweet containing that hashtag, the Bolts will "zoom in" their satellite map image of the tickets location. Simply awesome!

If you are a fan looking for free hockey tix, go hit the car (or bicycle) and the smartphone twitter app.

For more coverage of the Tampa Bay Lightning please check out Raw Charge, SBNations Bolts blog.