Posts About "Ondrej Palat"
Palat Is One Lightning Bright Spot
November 10th, 2019 It's been a less than ideal start for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2019-20. Many had them pegged as a Stanley Cup favorite, but they've been pedestrian at best thus far with an 8-5-2 record, 18 points and three points back of the second wildcard spot in the Eastern Conference. So far, they've had production from the usual suspects —...
Bolts Breakdown: Lightning Have Failed to Respond to Adversity
November 4th, 2019 One month of the 2019-20 NHL season is done, and the Tampa Bay Lightning are currently three points out of a playoff spot. So far this season, they have been struggling with penalties and giving up high-danger scoring chances while being streaky at best on offense. This past week saw much of the same. In three games against the New...
Lightning: Worst Contracts for the 2019-20 Season
August 17th, 2019 As the Tampa Bay Lightning developed a core of highly talented players over the course of the last decade, they consistently found ways to keep these stars around. By signing players to long-term contracts, they were often able to trade immediate cap hit for security, avoiding overpaying for their core. This has created a somewhat...
Lightning: 5 Best Yzerman-Era Draft Picks
June 19th, 2019 Throughout his tenure with the Tampa Bay Lightning, general manager Steve Yzerman found great success at the draft. Even if he struggled at times with first-round picks, his team of scouts consistently pulled top-talent out of all rounds of the draft. With 2019 representing the first draft for the Lightning without Yzerman in close...
Lightning Trade Block: Ondrej Palat
June 5th, 2019 Went ahead and removed the offending link. I keep forgetting they changed to a paywall.
Ondrej Palat: The Lightning's Forgotten Star
February 4th, 2019 Sometimes you just have to admit when you were wrong. And I can say, with full authority, that I was wrong when I wrote an article titled 'The Lightning Should Trade Ondrej Palat' in December. At the time my thought process was simple. When Palat went down with an injury in November, the Tampa Bay Lightning didn't miss a beat, going...
