Lightning’s 3 Best Contracts for the 2023-24 NHL Season Eugene Helfrick | September 7, 2023 Well, it’s that time of the year again. With September on the calendar, we are just a few weeks away from the start of training camp, which means we can…
Blackhawks News & Rumors: Prospects, Bedard, Hagel & More Gail Kauchak | August 28, 2023 Summer is rolling right along as we head into the last week of August. Before we know it, there will be training camps and preseason hockey games for the Chicago…
Lightning Hagel Signing Allows Team to Still Focus on the Future Jim Bay | August 23, 2023 The Tampa Bay Lightning are not going to rest on their laurels. As the team continues to deal with a tight salary cap, they have not only developed a roster…
NHL Rumors: Lightning, Canadiens, Bruins, Maple Leafs, Ducks Jim Parsons | August 22, 2023 In today’s NHL rumors rundown, the Tampa Bay Lightning have locked up Brandon Hagel to an eight-year contract extension. Meanwhile, Montreal Canadiens GM Kent Hughes has discussed the difficulties he’s…
Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson’s 3 Best Trades So Far Connor Smith | July 28, 2023 If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Chicago Blackhawks general manager (GM) Kyle Davidson, it’s that he isn’t afraid to be bold. Davidson spent four months as interim GM before…
Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: BriseBois, Vasilevskiy & More Jim Bay | May 4, 2023 Welcome to this edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stock Up and Stock Down, with the final edition of the 2022-23 season focusing on looking back on the season and…
NHL Should Not Make Officials Available to the Media Jim Bay | May 1, 2023 Recently, my The Hockey Writer’s colleague Mark Scheig wrote a column detailing why the NHL should start making officials available to the media after the games, much in how it…
5 Former Blackhawks to Watch in 2023 Playoffs Connor Smith | April 27, 2023 The Chicago Blackhawks might’ve been far from Stanley Cup contention this past season, but there are still many reasons to watch this year’s playoffs. The team has 19 former players…
Top 10 Underpaid Wingers in the NHL in 2022-23 Rob Couch | April 21, 2023 This is a mini-series looking at the top 10 underpaid players from each position in the NHL, and we continue by looking at wingers. In general, wingers aren’t paid as…
Lightning Continue to Reap Benefits From Hagel Trade 1 Year Later Jim Bay | March 22, 2023 On March 18, 2022, the scrawl at the bottom of NHL Network broke in with breaking news to announce that the Tampa Bay Lightning had acquired Brandon Hagel from the…
Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: Hagel, Kucherov & More Jim Bay | March 20, 2023 Welcome to this edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stock Up and Stock Down, a weekly column detailing the highs and lows of the team’s performance. The Tampa Bay Lightning had an…
Blackhawks: Revisiting the Brandon Hagel Trade 1 Year Later Connor Smith | March 18, 2023 When the Chicago Blackhawks dealt Brandon Hagel, it was the unofficial beginning of their scorched-earth rebuild. General manager (GM) Kyle Davidson traded the 24-year-old forward to the Tampa Bay Lightning…
