Lightning Struggle with 1st Round Picks Eugene Helfrick | June 22, 2017 There’s no such thing as a sure pick at the NHL draft. No matter the caliber of the prospect, anything can happen from draft night throughout the player’s career. Injury…
Lightning Re-Sign Peter Budaj Brandon Share-Cohen | June 19, 2017 The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed goaltender Peter Budaj to a two-year contract extension with a cap hit of $1.025 million per season, TSN Insider Bob McKenzie reported Monday. Recording a…
Lightning & Crunch Have a Promising Future Geoff Nichols | June 19, 2017 Tyler Johnson, Andrej Sustr, Richard Panik, Ondrej Palat, Vladislav Namestnikov, Brett Connolly, Radko Gudas. These names are familiar to most if not all hockey fans. While they may not still…
Drouin Trade Shows Premium Placed on NHL Defensemen Steven DiOssi | June 16, 2017 An important summer for the Tampa Bay Lightning got started with a bang on Thursday and it’s the latest example of the premium placed on defensemen in the NHL. General…
Canadiens Trade Sergachev to Lightning for Drouin Brandon Share-Cohen | June 15, 2017 The first big blockbuster trade of the 2017 offseason has taken place. The Montreal Canadiens have traded prospect Mikhail Sergachev and a conditional second-round draft pick in 2018 to the…
Yzerman Has Defining Decisions to Make Eugene Helfrick | June 7, 2017 At the start of the 2016-17 season, it looked like the Tampa Bay Lightning would be in a bad spot heading into the 2017 offseason. Between a number of high…
4 Lightning Players Vegas Fans Should Know Keith Scheessele | June 2, 2017 Steve Yzerman versus George McPhee is the conference room battle of NHL general managers that hockey fans deserve. Tampa Bay is up next our rundown of players fans of the…
Tampa Bay Is Ready to Shine for 2018 All-Star Game Eugene Helfrick | June 2, 2017 The return of the NHL All-Star Game to Tampa Bay has been a long time coming. When Tampa last hosted the All-Star game back in 1999, the sport was still in its…
Bringing Back Budaj Would Benefit Lightning Steven DiOssi | May 24, 2017 One of the decisions Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman faces this summer is who will backup goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy next season. But if the Lightning have their way (and…
Your Daily Sauce: Something Rotten in the State of Tampa Peter Ferrell | May 2, 2017 Last week saw Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov give a ground-breaking interview to a Russian newspaper, in which he seemed to call out his teammates, Lightning head coach Jon…
Lightning’s Kucherov Frustrated. Can You Blame Him? Steven DiOssi | April 27, 2017 When news surfaced on Wednesday about comments Nikita Kucherov reportedly made to Pavel Lysenkov, a reporter at Russia’s Sovietsky Sport, the internet exploded with reaction and speculation. While some were…
Kucherov in His Own Words: Translated Alessandro Seren Rosso | April 27, 2017 Nikita Kucherov had a great season for the Tampa Bay Lightning, scoring 85 points in the regular season. However, it has also been a rocky year for the team, who…