Dan Herrejon
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Born in Chicago, Illinois. Grew up playing and loving sports. Spent most of my formative years playing, debating, arguing and talking sports. for the last couple of years I have written about hockey. I am currently a Tampa Bay Lightning contributor for The Hockey Writers. I know that I may not always be right, but I am passionate about hockey and it is damn hard to hide that passion in my writing.
Author's Posts
Bon Voyage, Ben Bishop
February 28th, 2017 Well, the day many in Tampa Bay have been fearing for well over a year has come. The Tampa Bay Lightning traded No. 1 goalie, Ben Bishop to the Los Angeles Kings along with a 2017 fifth-round draft pick. In exchange for Bishop, the Lightning receives the Kings’ backup goalie, Peter Budaj along with right-handed defenseman, Erik...
NHL's Next 50 Goal Scorers
February 28th, 2017 In the last three NHL seasons, Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals has been the only player to break the 50-goal mark. It appears that this personal streak for Ovie won't continue this year. With a little more than 20 games left, Ovechkin needs a hair over a goal a game to hit half a hundred. It would appear that the lack of...
Are the Lightning a Playoff Team?
February 27th, 2017 As the NHL trade deadline looms, albeit quietly, the Tampa Bay Lightning are attempting to dig themselves out of a rather large hole. Make no mistake, the unenviable position the team found themselves in at the beginning of February was largely self-inflicted. By the beginning of the month, they found themselves in the cellar in the...
Mattias Ohlund: Lightning’s Gift to Hedman
February 23rd, 2017 In the 2009 NHL Draft, the Tampa Bay Lightning selected defenseman, Victor Hedman with the number two pick. Five days after drafting the 18-year-old Swede, the team made a couple of decisions that helped catapult Hedman’s career. Imagine beginning your NHL career half a world away from home. The best league in the world is demanding...
Jake Dotchin Impresses Lightning
February 22nd, 2017 In this mixed bag of a season for the Tampa Bay Lightning, one of the bright spots recently has been Jake Dotchin. The 22-year-old defenseman has 11 NHL games on his resume. The Tampa faithful has seen his ever-increasing role among the blueliners even line up with All-Star Victor Hedman. http://gty.im/632795126 Drafted in the...
Top 3 All-Time Lightning Goalies
February 21st, 2017 The Tampa Bay Lightning have been in existence for 24 NHL seasons. During this time, there have been 43 men who took their position between the pipes for the Bolts. For our purposes, we are only looking at those goalies that played at least 100 games for the Lightning. The minimum game criterion gets the list down to five individuals....