Victor Hedman Will Win the Norris Anthony Moukarzel | September 15, 2017 It’s time for hockey fans and analysts to start coming up with their preseason predictions for the 2017-18 campaign. One of the most notable trophies handed out following every season…
Long Path Taken For Vasilevskiy’s Future Eugene Helfrick | August 23, 2017 In early 2013, there was a joke running around Tampa Bay Lightning fans that they should be sleeping with a framed picture of Andrei Vasilevskiy over their beds so they…
What Can the Lightning Expect from Ryan Callahan? The Hockey Writers | August 13, 2017 When the Lightning signed Ryan Callahan to his six-year $34.8 million dollar extension back in the summer of 2014, they expected to have a reliable two way player for years…
Lightning Have a Depth Problem Eugene Helfrick | August 4, 2017 Depth is an important aspect of any team. While there are a few kinds of depth player, the types that have the biggest effect on a team are game time…
How Dan Girardi Improves the Lightning Steven DiOssi | July 31, 2017 When Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman announced defenseman Dan Girardi’s two-year, $6 million deal on July 1, some people questioned the deal. The Lightning were just more than…
How the Tampa Bay Lightning Are Changing Their City The Hockey Writers | July 29, 2017 When I told my uncle that I was going to be writing about the Tampa Bay Lightning online, he was ecstatic. Not as much about the writing part, but more so…
Tampa Bay Lightning Top 4 Prospects 2017 Eugene Helfrick | July 12, 2017 When Steve Yzerman took over the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2010, the organization had one of the weakest prospect pools in the NHL. Since then Yzerman and company have placed…
Lightning Re-Sign Tyler Johnson Brandon Share-Cohen | July 10, 2017 The Tampa Bay Lightning and forward Tyler Johnson have agreed to terms on a seven-year contract extension worth $35 million, the team announced Monday. The deal comes with a cap…
Dotchin’s Compete Should Equal NHL Success Geoff Nichols | July 10, 2017 Much like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Yanni Gourde’s recent two-year contract extension, defenseman Jake Dotchin’s recent success has earned him his own two-year, one-way extension. The deal carries an $812,500…
Lightning Create More Defensive Questions Eugene Helfrick | July 6, 2017 Heading into the 2016-17 season, it looked like the Tampa Bay Lightning had assembled the best stable of defensemen for the franchise in the last decade. The team that had…
Lightning’s Yzerman Continues to Build Depth Steven DiOssi | July 5, 2017 Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman’s most newsworthy moves this summer have come in trading Jonathan Drouin for defenseman Mikhail Sergachev and the signing of free agents Chris Kunitz…
Yanni Gourde Earned His Lightning Contract Geoff Nichols | July 3, 2017 Some players like Steven Stamkos or Brayden Point jump straight from Major Junior to the National Hockey League and some take a couple years of grooming in the American Hockey…