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The former Red Wings VP and hall-of-famer has begun a resurrection in Tampa Bay, bringing in key players new and old. Did anyone really see this coming? Steve Yzerman became the General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning on May 25th, and made a handful of amazing moves before his seat was even warm. The [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, THW Marty St. Louis has been the face of the Tampa Bay Lightning for many years. Ever since his triple overtime goal against the Washington Capitals in game 6 of the opening round series in 2003, gave the Lightning their first taste of winning, and a come from behind 4-2 series win, [...]
After what seems like months of speculation of Stevie Y moving on to lead another team, it will be announced today that that team is the Tampa Bay Lightning.
EASTERN CONFERENCE: ~ After getting manhandled by the Flyers in Game 1, the Canadiens won’t be getting help from Andrei Markov anytime soon: “Montreal Canadiens defenceman Andrei Markov will not be available to the team this playoff round…Markov did not skate Sunday morning, nor did he practise Saturday after he was in obvious discomfort during [...]
Well, that didn’t take long. After Atlanta’s division rival, the Tampa Bay Lightning cleaned house by letting GM Brian Lawton and Head Coach Rick Tocchet go earlier this week, the Thrashers did their own reshuffle earlier today. Don Waddell, the only General Manager the team has ever known, has been promoted to be the President [...]
Jim Neveau, Blackhawks Correspondent In last year’s NHL Playoffs, the Chicago Blackhawks were the beneficiary of some really good goaltending from now-departed Nikolai Khabibulin. When he went down in the Conference Finals with an injury, the momentum of the series seemed to shift irreversibly over to the Detroit Red Wings. Cristobal Huet came in and [...]
By Rick Gethin The lights have been turned off on another disappointing season for the Blue Jackets. The fans have all retreated to their homes for the summer to agonizingly wait for yet another season filled with hopes to start. While thoughts have turned to where and who Columbus will pick in [...]
Just like successful young teams such as the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals and Chicago Blackhawks before them, the Edmonton Oilers have officially bottomed out. They have been slowly going downhill since their magical run to the cup finals in 2006, and have finally landed in a position to get the first overall pick in the [...]
With the season winding down and the list of potential playoff teams dwindles, fans of those teams at the bottom of the standings (like myself) find it harder to find something to root for. In the case of the Florida Panthers, they find themselves staring at a NHL-record tying 9th straight season without a postseason [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, THW With the Olympic break no longer visible in the NHL’s rearview mirror, here’s some developing trends since that two week hiatus. Only days before the Olympic break the Tampa Bay Lightning were sitting in 6th place in the Eastern Conference. Then they lost 3 games in 4 days heading into the [...]
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