Lightning Management
History Says Yzerman Will Sell at Deadline
January 24th, 2018 Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman is known to be a shrewd businessman when it comes to making trades. Part of how he has turned Tampa Bay into a contender is by making smart trades that benefit the team in the long term rather than for short-term gain. Since taking...
How the Tampa Bay Lightning Are Changing Their City
July 29th, 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 the Lightning. Even though I knew Tampa had a loaded team under GM Steve Yzerman, I was pretty confused. My uncle is a...
Lightning's Yzerman Continues to Build Depth
July 5th, 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 and Dan Girardi. But Yzerman is quietly re-signing a handful of the...
Yzerman Has Defining Decisions to Make
June 7th, 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 profile players needing new contracts, a looming expansion draft and questions about who the franchise goaltender...
Lightning's Yzerman Eyes NHL Expansion Draft to Start Summer
April 15th, 2017 For Tampa Bay Lightning, the 2016-17 regular season has come and gone and for the first time in four years, they are not one of 16 teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Lightning (almost) overcame an underwhelming first two-thirds of the regular season and came just one...
Should Tampa Fans Still Trust the "Yzerplan"
March 13th, 2017 For Tampa Bay Lightning fans, it's been a long year. Starting with Steven Stamkos's injury in November, the Lightning have faced a list of injuries as long as the wait for bathrooms in Amalie Stadium. That includes recent injuries to Tyler Johnson, Cedric Paquette and...
Five Questions Lightning's Yzerman Faces Now
February 18th, 2017 The Tampa Bay Lightning return from the bye week with back-to-back contests against the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche this weekend. With 26 games left to play in the regular season, they are six points behind the Toronto Maple Leafs for the last wild spot in the...
What is Lightning's Yzerman to Do?
January 30th, 2017 As the NHL All-Star break draws to a close and teams return to regular season play, there's perhaps no one with more to prove than the Tampa Bay Lightning. Picked by many national publications as an odds-on favorite to win the Stanley Cup, they are six points behind the...
Calls for Jon Cooper’s Head Absurd
January 24th, 2017 One of the oldest clichés in sports, in general, is that all coaches are hired to be fired. Pretty self-explanatory. We get it. Unless some poor guy behind the bench actually dies behind the bench, all coaches will eventually be shown the door. Comes with the...
Keeping Kucherov in Tampa Bay
August 10th, 2016 The Tampa Bay Lightning have approximately $6.59 million in cap space as of today, and if I'm Steve Yzerman I'm sitting in my office every day contemplating giving Kucherov $6-6.5 million of that hit before the season begins. In fact, as the days get closer and closer to...
Conacher Continues to Beat the Odds in Return to Lightning
August 3rd, 2016 The buzz created when the Tampa Bay Lightning signed free agent forward Cory Conacher to a one-year contract earlier this summer has been hard to ignore, but a look at his life on and off the ice makes it easy to understand. The 26-year-old played just 35 games in a...
Despite Stamkos and Hedman Extensions, Yzerman’s Work Continues
July 12th, 2016 Being an NHL general manager is a full-time job, but Tampa Bay Lightning GM Steve Yzerman is working overtime this summer. Earlier this off-season, Yzerman was able to ink Steven Stamkos, Victor Hedman and Andrei Vasilevskiy to contract extensions. For many GMs, locking...
Tick-Tock: Decision on Stamkos' Future Quickly Approaching
June 21st, 2016 With under two weeks to go until July 1st – the official start of the free agency period in the NHL – Steve Yzerman’s comments on Monday about the Steven Stamkos contract situation have officially shed light on the fact that time is now of the essence. Whether...
