Darren Faria
4th year Sport Management student at Brock University.
Author's Posts
Should Lightning Be Shopping Filppula?
January 19th, 2017 Valtteri Filppula has been a perfect fit with the Tampa Bay Lightning ever since leaving the Detroit Red Wings back in 2013-14 to join his new team in the Sunshine State. At 32-years-old, and with the Lightning pressed tight up against the NHL’s salary cap, could Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman be thinking of moving Filppula...
Lightning Prospects Excel for Canada
January 7th, 2017 Back in November, it was announced that the Tampa Bay Lightning would have six of their prospects invited to Canada’s World Junior Championship U-20 camp for the chance to compete in this year’s IIHF 2017 World Junior Championship, boasting three more players than any other NHL team. Of the six to make it to camp, five made the...
Predators’ Belated Santa Wish List
December 30th, 2016 The Nashville Predators went into the Christmas break hopeful that they could turn their fortunes around after the holidays to make up for their average play during the team’s first 33 games. With back-to-back losses since returning to the ice, their plan is not shaping up so well to start, as they find themselves near the bottom of...
Jets’ New Year's Resolutions
December 30th, 2016 The Winnipeg Jets have been finding ways to keep themselves in the wild card hunt in the NHL’s western conference standings, but it hasn’t come easy. The Jets will be looking to change some things up heading into the New Year and working towards becoming a better all-around team, something they’ve struggled to be so far this...
Lightning Struck by Injury
December 29th, 2016 The Tampa Bay Lightning have been hit by the injury bug this season and hit hard. As of right now, the Lightning have four players listed out with injuries, though that list was longer just a short time ago and really hurt Tampa Bay in the standings. Luckily for the team, a number of players are crawling back into the lineup but it will...
A December for Drouin
December 27th, 2016 After a slower start than what many were expecting, Tampa Bay Lightning forward Jonathan Drouin has had a December to remember. The 21-year-old native of Quebec was setback by injury in early November but responded with a productive few weeks before the holidays, undoubtedly serving as Tampa Bay’s player of the month. Injured...
