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Lydia Szyjka

Lydia Szyjka is a freelance writer for The Hockey Writers. Growing up in Tampa, she graduated from H.B. Plant High School—never dreaming her Tampa Bay Lightning would win three Stanley Cups. She is director of communications for a Catholic university, where she is the editor of the alumni magazine. An avid hockey fan, she and her husband live in Delaware with their two cats.

Lightning Will Need Different Defensemen to Step up This Season

Lydia Szyjka | August 4, 2022

Tampa Bay Lightning defensemen Victor Hedman, Mikhail Sergachev, and Erik Cernak have all won back-to-back Stanley Cups. You can add new Lightning defenseman Ian Cole to that rare list, as…

Lightning Will Face Stiff Competition in Atlantic Division in 2022-23

Lydia Szyjka | July 30, 2022

No one is imagining that the competition in the Eastern Conference is going to be a cake walk for the Tampa Bay Lightning during the 2022-2023 season; it never has…

Can the Lightning Survive a Vasilevskiy Injury in 2022-23?

Lydia Szyjka | July 27, 2022

For the past five years, the Lightning have not needed to worry about who’s going to be in net when the season begins —and especially once the puck drops for…

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