Tampa Bay’s Transformation: The Yzerman Effect Danny Di Nicolantonio | April 14, 2015 Steve Yzerman is currently in his fifth season as the vice president and general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning after spending the previous 27 years within the Detroit Red…
Nikita Kucherov’s Rise in 2014-2015 Brian Sklar | March 30, 2015 Nikita Kucherov was drafted in the 2nd round and 58th overall in 2011 by the Tampa Bay Lightning. The 5’11, 184 lb, 21-year-old emerging star from Moscow, Russia has taken…
Better Late Than Never: Top 10 2015 NHL Entry Draft Returnees Derek Neumeier | March 16, 2015 For many things in life there are no second chances. In the world of hockey, however, second chances do exist in certain areas. One of those areas is the NHL…
Crunch Time for the Lightning Michelle Timian | February 9, 2015 A look at team stats shows center Tyler Johnson first in points, followed by Ondrej Palat 13 points after him. No, this is not the 2014-2015 season and these are…
Tyler Johnson: The American Dream Brian Sklar | January 6, 2015 If Nazem Kadri is known in Toronto as “The Dream” then Tampa Bay Lightning 2nd year center Tyler Johnson is “The American Dream”. Johnson was a Calder Trophy Finalist his…
Lightning Power Play Showing Signs of Life Anthony Murphy | January 5, 2015 View image | gettyimages.com It wasn’t pretty, but for the third time in four games, the Tampa Bay Lightning scored a power play goal. The downside to their most recent…
No Place Like Home: Lightning Home Success Continues Against Penguins Anthony Murphy | December 23, 2014 The Wizard of Oz’s own Dorothy couldn’t have said it better, ‘there is no place like home’, as the Tampa Bay Lightning relished in their first home game since December…
The ‘Triplets’ Line: Tampa’s 1A Option Brian Sklar | November 22, 2014 Through the first quarter of the 2014-2015 hockey season the Tampa Bay Lightning are among the top offensive teams in the National Hockey League. The reason being is they have…
Kucherov-Johnson-Palat Line Gives Goals Galore William Gilbert | November 8, 2014 Tampa Bay knows how to score, there’s no doubt about it. Currently, the Lightning are second in the NHL in average goals scored per game scoring 3.62 a game, only…
Kucherov Adds Another Scoring Threat for Bolts Michelle Timian | October 30, 2014 On a team loaded with high-level talent, it seems almost unfair that another one of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s skaters has been recently added to the team’s growing list of…
Top 5 Under 25 on the Tampa Bay Lightning Brian Sklar | October 30, 2014 I would first of all like to say that the Lightning are building something great down in Tampa. They’re building the type of team that is getting ready for a…
Atlantic Division Rivals: Can the Leafs Weather the Lightning Storm? Andrew Forbes | August 12, 2014 They were supposed to have one of the league’s best scorers in 2013-14 – as they have since 2008-09 in Steven Stamkos. That was until he broke his right leg…