December 9th, 2015Every year, the NHL awards its most valuable player as deemed by the media with the Hart Trophy. The Hart is quite arguable most the prestigious individual award that a player can attain, and so far it is none other than Erik Karlsson who deserves to be the favorite to lay claim to it in June.
In the early portion of the 2015-2016...
December 9th, 2015The Tampa Bay Lightning in their current form are not what they were last season. However, that does not mean that what turned out to be their fatal flaw from last season's Stanley Cup final against the Chicago Blackhawks is still a problem currently. That's actually very far from reality.
A lot was made last May and June about how...
December 3rd, 2015After a rocky start to the season in October, the Tampa Bay Lightning hoped to bounce back with a strong second month of the campaign that would ideally vault them right back into a playoff position. Unfortunately, things didn't go quite as planned. The Lightning finished November with a solid 6-5-1 mark, but that isn't exactly what was...
November 2nd, 2015Prior to last night's 4-3 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, the Tampa Bay Lightning were undeniably in a rut. The team started the season hot, opening the campaign with three straight wins over Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Boston.
However, that 3-0-0 start was followed by a rough stretch in which the team's record was a...
October 26th, 2015When the Tampa Bay Lightning used the third overall selection in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft to add Jonathan Drouin to their young, budding core, they believed they were acquiring a sort of transcendent offensive talent who would be able to eventually take over games at the NHL level on his own. The scouts at the time certainly...
October 17th, 2015It's early yet, but the first indications of what the Tampa Bay Lightning will be able to expect out of their primary free agent acquisition from this offseason are highly encouraging.
Erik Condra, a 29-year-old right winger brought in from the Ottawa Senators, was seen as a necessary depth piece to provide stability to Tampa Bay's...
September 11th, 2015Late summer prospect tournaments have become an annual tradition throughout the NHL recently. There are quite a few different competitions out there, and perhaps the one with the most recognizable name is the Traverse City Prospect Tournament that takes place in Traverse City, Michigan.
The Blackhawks organization has become one of...
September 5th, 2015We're a little more than a month away from puck drop on the NHL's 2015-2016 regular season. That means that over the course of the next few weeks, informal skates will be taking place, training camps will open, and pre-season games will begin to be played.
All of those things are a welcomed change of pace from the doldrums of late...