Countdown to Puck Drop – Day 71 – Cirelli for the Selke Steve Marowski | July 23, 2019 Introducing The Hockey Writers’ Countdown to Puck Drop series. From now until the puck drops on the 2019-20 NHL’s regular season on Oct. 2 when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the…
3 Superbly Underrated Lightning Players Eugene Helfrick | January 24, 2019 If you look at the Tampa Bay Lightning roster, the first thing you will notice is star power. As a team, the Lightning live and die by its top players, with…
Lightning Rookies Making an Immediate Impact Eugene Helfrick | January 5, 2019 A major focus of former Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman was to keep a constant flow of young, high-talent players available in the AHL so they could compete…
Lightning Weekly Flash: Stamkos, Vasilevskiy & Cirelli The Hockey Writers | December 17, 2018 Two and a half months into the 2018-19 season, the Tampa Bay Lightning look eerily similar to last season’s team, standings-wise. It took them one more game, but they eclipsed…
Lightning Impressed With Cirelli The Hockey Writers | May 10, 2018 When the Tampa Bay Lightning found themselves struggling a bit with late-season injuries, general manager Steve Yzerman made the unorthodox decision to bring up a guy in his first professional…
Lightning’s Outstanding 2015 Draft Eugene Helfrick | March 26, 2018 For many Tampa Bay Lightning fans, the 2015 entry level draft will be forever etched into their memory because it occurred just a few short weeks after the Lightning’s lengthy run to…
Lightning Top 4 Prospects 2018 Eugene Helfrick | March 7, 2018 After making a major futures trade for Ryan McDonagh and J.T. Miller at the 2018 trade deadline, the Tampa Bay Lightning’s prospects pool has experienced one of its biggest shake-ups…
Tampa Bay Lightning Top 4 Prospects 2017 Eugene Helfrick | July 12, 2017 When Steve Yzerman took over the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2010, the organization had one of the weakest prospect pools in the NHL. Since then Yzerman and company have placed…
Measuring Impact of Erie Otters’ Memorial Cup Run Mark Scheig | May 29, 2017 Make no mistake about it. The Erie Otters’ 4-3 loss to the Windsor Spitfires in the Mastercard Memorial Cup Final was by far their most crushing defeat of the season.…
Celebrating the Erie Otters’ OHL Championship Mark Scheig | May 13, 2017 Even the greatest of teams start with the humblest of beginnings. The story of the Erie Otters begins with the lowest of lows. Flashback to the 2011-12 season. The Otters…
Erie Otters Punch Ticket to OHL Finals Mark Scheig | April 30, 2017 The Erie Otters are going to the Ontario Hockey League Finals. They punched their ticket to the big dance by defeating the Owen Sound Attack 7-2 in Game 6 of…
Anthony Cirelli Paces Erie Otters’ 10-Goal Outburst Mark Scheig | March 4, 2017 Coming off a weekend where the Erie Otters lost two of three games, they looked to start this weekend with a bang in their pursuit of home ice advantage throughout…