Posts About "Matt Carle"
Carle Retires, Prust Leaves Toronto & More News
November 26th, 2016 Veteran defenseman Matt Carle has announced Friday that he will retire from hockey at age 32. After clearing waivers, the Nashville Predators put Carle on unconditional waivers, which clears the path for the two parties to terminate Carle's contract and will allow him to retire, as first reported by Adam Vingan of The...
Are the Nashville Predators Done Making Moves?
August 20th, 2016 The Nashville Predators have done a lot to shake up their roster this offseason. They traded their beloved captain Shea Weber to the Montreal Canadiens for the dynamic P.K. Subban. The team also managed to lock up pieces like Filip Forsberg and Calle Jarnkrok. The Predators also added some depth to the bottom-half of one of the...
Upside To Signing Matt Carle
August 2nd, 2016 David Poile and the Nashville Predators have had a rather eventful offseason so far. The events started when Jimmy Vesey, a Predators draft pick, and Harvard graduate, decided he would not sign with the Predators. The events continued with the signing of Filip Forsberg to a big contract and Poile pulling off the blockbuster trade of...
Predators Sign Matt Carle
July 27th, 2016 The Nashville Predators have signed defenseman Matt Carle to a one-year deal worth $700,000, the team announced Wednesday. The Predators have one of the deepest defenses in the entire NHL, but a very small portion of their roster has the NHL experience that Carle will bring to their locker...
Momentous Playoff Series Victory for the Tampa Bay Lightning
April 24th, 2016 It would be easy to blow out of proportion the Tampa Bay Lightning's Round 1 Playoff win over the Detroit Red Wings. The five game series won by the Lightning could be viewed by some as monumental considering the team was playing without two of its top players. Both Steven Stamkos and Anton Stralman were unavailable for the entire...
Redemption Chance for Matt Carle
March 27th, 2016 It has been an excruciatingly difficult season for Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman, Matt Carle. For the first time in his ten year NHL career, Carle has been a healthy scratch in 18 of the team's 75 games this season. This is new territory for the veteran blue liner. The irony for Carle is that at $5.5 million in average salary, he is...
Writing on the Wall for Matt Carle
November 2nd, 2015 It was a coach’s decision that didn’t make a splash. The kind of decision that NHL coaches make almost daily during the season. Before each game, an NHL coach has to decide which 18 non-goalie players are going to dress for that game. The coach takes into consideration which player cannot go because of an injury. Then of the...
Spotlight on Three Lightning Players
August 6th, 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. Sure, they replaced veteran forward Brenden Morrow with younger veteran forward, Erik Condra. They lost a couple of restricted free agents from the organization in...
The Tampa Bay Lightning and their Underrated Defense
May 7th, 2015 The Tampa Bay Lightning is known as a high powered, lightning fast (pun intended) offense. The highest scoring team in the NHL this season takes a back seat to no other team in terms of offense. With Steven Stamkos, the number two goal scorer in the league in addition to the Triplets Line of Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat and Nikita...
Tuesday Trade Review: The Boyle Deal
March 17th, 2015 The Situation: Tampa Bay After being ranked number one in the Eastern Conference and winning the Stanley Cup in 2004, the Tampa Bay Lightning became a mediocre team in the National Hockey League. They qualified for the playoffs in the two succeeding years as the seventh and eighth seeds, but failed to make it past the first round in...
Hockey News: Carcillo Suspension; Revisiting the Seguin Trade
January 20th, 2015 The NHL has suspended Daniel Carcillo for six games. This is now his ninth career suspension. Maybe the ref just had grapefruit in his eye, Peter. Craig MacTavish forgot about some of the trades he's made. Don't worry, Craig, we'd want to forget too. Lightning defenceman Matt Carle will miss two months with an injury....
Lightning Defense Struggles Against Bruins Without Hedman
January 14th, 2015 View image | gettyimages.com Sometimes you can’t truly appreciate what a player means to their team until they are out. For the Tampa Bay Lightning, the last five periods of play have shown how much Victor Hedman has meant to their team. After leaving the game against the Philadelphia Flyers Monday night with a lower body...
After Big Night, Lightning Blue Line Looks to Continue Success
December 30th, 2014 View image | gettyimages.com In their big win against the Toronto Maple Leafs it became even more evident one of the keys to the success of the Tampa Bay Lightning, continued activity from the team's blue line. The Lightning has no shortage of offensive stars, but the success of the blue line will determine just how far the...
