Lightning 3 Stars of the Month – March 2021 Andrew Mulville | April 1, 2021 The Tampa Bay Lightning are having a very successful campaign so far, especially for a defending Stanley Cup Champion. They were the first team to reach 50 points this season,…
Lightning’s Ondrej Palat Breaks 500-Game Mark as a Bolt Teagan Giselbrecht | January 31, 2021 A lengthy career isn’t always guaranteed for professional athletes who compete in physical sports like hockey. But for the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Ondrej Palat, he’s off to quite the strong…
Lightning: Standout Players Through the First 5 Games Nathan Moser | January 30, 2021 The Tampa Bay Lightning are five games into their quest to repeat as Stanley Cup champions. Like in the past few seasons, depth has played a huge factor in the…
Lightning’s Ondrej Palat: Great Value From a Late-Round Pick Elisabeth Baker | December 17, 2020 Ondrej Palat was born in Frýdek-Místek, Czechoslovakia, in 1991, a blue-collared city with a population of 56,000. Like most players in the NHL, he started playing hockey at a young…
Lightning Standout Players From Game 1 Nathan Moser | September 8, 2020 The Tampa Bay Lightning wasted no time finding their game in the Eastern Conference Final against the New York Islanders on Sunday night. They produced eight goals to defeat the…
Devils’ Trading Partners: The Lightning Have What They Need Alex Chauvancy | August 3, 2020 Weaponizing cap space is not a luxury many teams have. But it’s something the New Jersey Devils have done to a great extent over the last few seasons. Whether it…
Red Wings Must Take Advantage of Flat Salary Cap Tony Wolak | July 2, 2020 If the speculation holds true that the 2020-21 salary cap upper limit will remain at $81.5 million, the Detroit Red Wings have a tremendous opportunity in front of them. Only…
Lightning’s 2011 NHL Draft Picks: Where Are They Now? Mathieu Sheridan | June 27, 2020 Welcome to the second part of a series that looks back on the Tampa Bay Lightning’s draft picks over the years and where they are now. This part will discuss…
Lightning’s 2020 Trade Block: Ondrej Palat Eugene Helfrick | June 7, 2020 Few players in Tampa Bay Lightning history have the legacy of Ondrej Palat. We all know the story by now. As an overage seventh-round selection at the 2011 NHL Draft,…
Lightning: Looking Forward to the 2021 Seattle Expansion Draft Eugene Helfrick | April 24, 2020 For the Tampa Bay Lightning, the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft was relatively painless. While the Vegas Golden Knights built a Stanley Cup contender using leverage granted by the NHL, the…
Kucherov Scores in OT to Lift Lightning past Predators 3-2 The Canadian Press | December 3, 2019 NASHVILLE — Nikita Kucherov scored at 2:35 of overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. Victor Hedman and Ondrej Palat also scored and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 30 shots as the Lightning snap…
Palat Is One Lightning Bright Spot Steve Marowski | November 10, 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…