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…
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…
Lightning Sign Chris Kunitz Andrew Forbes | July 1, 2017 From Stanley Cup champion to free agent and now Chris Kunitz is a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning after signing a one-year deal with the club worth $2 million,…
Lightning Sign Dan Girardi Andrew Forbes | July 1, 2017 The Tampa Bay Lightning have added to their already impressive defensive core by signing the physical blueliner Dan Girardi, according to TSN’s Bob McKenzie. Dan Girardi to TB. — Bob…
Cal Looks to Leave His Own Foote-Prints in the NHL Dan Rice | June 27, 2017 With their first pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, the Tampa Bay Lightning selected Callan Foote at 14th overall, the son of former defenseman Adam who won two Stanley Cups…
Lightning Prospect Ben Thomas Geoff Nichols | June 27, 2017 The 2017 NHL Entry Draft has come and gone and the Tampa Bay Lightning selected six players to fill their prospect ranks. While most, if not all, of those six…
