Signing Nikita Kucherov Poses a Serious Challenge for the Lightning Mike Necciai | August 18, 2015 The Tampa Bay Lightning are facing a major cap crunch after this coming season, and it poses a major problem in signing Nikita Kucherov. I visited a similar topic a…
3 Concerns Facing the Tampa Bay Lightning Mike Necciai | August 14, 2015 The Tampa Bay Lightning will face one of the toughest tasks in all of sports this coming season and that’s making a repeat trip to the Stanley Cup Final after…
Sami Salo Wrist Injury Forces Retirement Dustin Nelson | August 13, 2015 At age 40, Finnish defenseman Sami Salo has announced that he will retire from hockey, according to the Finnish publication Ilta-Sanomat. Salo will soon be 41 and didn’t have a…
Lightning Announce Brian Engblom as New Color Analyst Dan Herrejon | August 11, 2015 The Tampa Bay Lightning and their regional television partner, Sun Sports Florida, have named former NBC and NBCSN NHL Analyst, Brian Engblom as their new color analyst for the upcoming…
A Bolt Of Lightning: Tampa Bay’s Jonathan Drouin Dilemma Charles Blouin-Gascon | August 9, 2015 You can’t quite call it a problem, but it’s certainly something. You can’t call it a problem, because a majority of teams in the NHL would love to have the…
Can the Lightning Sustain Success Without Steven Stamkos? Mike Necciai | August 9, 2015 While it seems like more of a nightmare than reality, it’s beginning to look like a very real possibility that the Tampa Bay Lightning and Steven Stamkos could part ways.…
Spotlight on Three Lightning Players Dan Herrejon | August 6, 2015 We are a little over two months from the beginning of the 2015-16 NHL season. For the Stanley Cup runner up Tampa Bay Lightning, this off-season has been relatively quiet.…
Most Underrated Defensive Pair in the NHL Dan Herrejon | August 5, 2015 At six-foot six, Victor Hedman casts a long shadow. At 24 years of age, he has his best hockey in front of him. Many NHL observers took note during the recent playoff…
Lightning Struck Gold With the Triplets Line Mike Necciai | July 31, 2015 They say that lightning never strikes the same place twice. Well, ironically for the Tampa Bay Lightning it struck three times with Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat, and Nikita Kucherov. If…
3 Players Primed to Breakout This Season Anthony Fusco | July 31, 2015 Every player in the NHL dreams of making their mark in the league by becoming a superstar scoring machine. They want to be the one who is counted on to…
All-Time Tampa Bay Lightning Team Dan Herrejon | July 31, 2015 The Tampa Bay Lightning came into existence in 1992. After 23 years and 22 actual NHL seasons along with two Stanley Cup Final appearances and one Stanley Cup victory, the…
Manon Rheaume: First Lady of Hockey Dan Herrejon | July 31, 2015 Many of you know that the initial season of the National Women’s Hockey League is this upcoming season. In the fall, there will be four teams battling it out in…