Lightning’s 2012 Draft Picks: Where Are They Now?
The 2012 NHL Draft is one that the Tampa Bay Lightning should feel great about. Although many of the picks did not pan out, the importance of adding Andrei Vasilevskiy …
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3 Areas the Lightning Can Improve To Continue Early-Season Success
To say that the start to the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2020-21 season has been unusual would be a bit of an understatement. Besides the fact that they kicked off their …
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Tampa Bay Lightning 3 Stars of the Month – January 2021
The Tampa Bay Lightning held off the Nashville Predators to finish January with nine points in six games played to open the 2020-21 season. Only the Florida Panthers, Dallas Stars, …
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Ranking the NHL’s 31 Starting Goalies – 2020-21 Season
The poet John Donne famously wrote, “no man is an island unto itself.” But he wrote that in 1623, long before the game of hockey was invented. Had he survived …
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Lightning: Standout Players Through the First 5 Games
The Tampa Bay Lightning are five games into their quest to repeat as Stanley Cup champions. Like in the past few seasons, depth has played a huge factor in the …
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Lightning: 3 Takeaways From Opening Night Against the Blackhawks
The 2020-21 NHL season has officially begun, and the Tampa Bay Lightning have started their quest of defending the Stanley Cup. They opened their new campaign against the Chicago Blackhawks, …
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Lightning 2020-21 Preview: Defending Champs in an Improbable Season
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, there was only one acceptable outcome for the 2019-20 NHL season: win the Stanley Cup. After experiencing one of the greatest postseason collapses in sports …
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Lightning Have Felt Brisebois’ Impact Since 2010
Canadian-born Julien BriseBois did not start his career as a general manager in the National Hockey League. He likely never imagined he would be managing the most recent Stanley Cup …
Lightning Seeking to Become the 2nd Team to Repeat in the Salary Cap Era
The Stanley Cup is considered the hardest trophy to win in professional sports and even harder to win in back-to-back seasons. Since the salary cap was instituted ahead of the …
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How Deep is the Lightning’s Goaltending Pool?
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, goaltending is a position of strength heading into the 2020-21 season. When Andrei Vasilevskiy is your nightly starter, after all, you can rest somewhat easy …
Hellebuyck Well-Deserving of Vezina Victory
Connor Hellebuyck’s superb season rightly culminated in a Vezina Trophy victory at the 2020 NHL Awards aired live from Edmonton. Hellebuyck received 19 first-place votes and a total of 123 …
Russian Goaltending Dominates as Stars Take Game 1
The first game of the Stanley Cup Final between the West third-seeded Dallas Stars and the East second-seeded Tampa Bay Lightning went to the Stars. When the NHL announced their …
