Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsHe’s staying. After suiting up for nine games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Brett Connolly was told by Bolts’ GM, Steve Yzerman, that he’ll be remaining in the NHL for the near future. There had been speculation that the 19-year-old rookie would be sent back to his major-junior squad, the Prince George Cougars of the ...
The Tampa Bay Lightning’s new uniforms are generating buzz in the hockey world, but the re-worked sweater is only the most obvious element of the Lightning’s organizational transformation. Here are five key changes you need to know about. New Ownership The transformation started with Jeff Vinik. Prior to the now 52-year-old founder and chairman of ...
It has been years since the Tampa Bay Lightning entered a season with such swagger. Oh, sure there have been some good seasons. There was even that great one back in 2003-04 that produced the franchise’s sole Stanley Cup. But consider that at this time last year, the Bolts were a franchise that had scratched ...
“Because a player is from Russia, will their draft stock drop?” - Is this still a valid question? For many years this has been the case with the likes of Alexei Cherepanov, Viktor Tikhonov, Alexander Khokhlachev, and even some higher profile names like Kirill Kabanov and Dmitri Kulikov. Russian hockey player’s reputations have been branded ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins signed Jason Williams to a one-year, two-way contract that will pay him $600,000 at the NHL level.
It’s not often that a Rocket Richard Trophy winner hits the open market. Last summer, Ilya Kovalchuk earned $100m after testing the waters of free agency (as well as the limitations of the Collective Bargaining Agreement). But no player since the lockout has ever entered restricted free agency with a resume like that of Tampa ...
Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent St. Paul, MN – The 2011 NHL Entry Draft got off to a pretty tame start in the Twin Cities. Other than the trade that sent Ryan Smyth to the Edmonton Oilers for Gilbert Brule and a draft pick, nearly the entire first round went off without any picks swapping hands ...
Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent During this late stage of the NHL calendar, there has been plenty of news both on and off the ice to keep computer keyboards active and eyes busy with reading. You’ve had the Stanley Cup playoffs rolling along, the Atlanta Thrashers’ finally ending 15 years of frustration in Winnipeg by announcing ...
Despite the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins on Friday night, their season has been a huge success. In the past three seasons, they have averaged 72 points a year, finishing 15th, 14th and 12th in the Eastern Conference. This season, they finished with 46 wins, 103 points and made it ...
That guy at the office who is all too eager to point out discrepancies. The one that fancies himself a walking, breathing, encyclopedia of vast, untapped knowledge. He constantly finds fault in even the most mundane water cooler conversations and relishes any opportunity to ever so politely, yet, still, amazingly annoyingly, correct others. You have ...
