by Kenneth Cross | Oct 13, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning
TAMPA – The beauty and the pomp and circumstance of the raising of the 2020-21 Stanley Cup Champions banner was literally the highlight the evening as the Pittsburgh Penguins rolled into Amalie Arena and were dominant in a 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on...
by Kenneth Cross | Jul 8, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning
TAMPA – Given history, who would bet against Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy going to the Lightning’s 1-0 win in Wednesday night’s Game 5 as Tampa Bay captured the Stanley Cup? Vasilevskiy turned away 22 shots and had an amazing defense...
by Kenneth Cross | Jun 29, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning
TAMPA – The Tampa Bay Lightning began their defense of the Stanley Cup championship on Monday night behind defenseman Erik Cernak’s first goal of the playoffs and two goals and an assist from Nikita Kucherov in handing the upstart Montreal Canadiens a 5-1...
by Kenneth Cross | Jun 26, 2021 | Homepage, New York Islanders, NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning
TAMPA – Champions take on different characteristics, but once a team wins a championship, that experience goes a long way in defining how hard it is to dethrone the said team. The Tampa Bay Lightning showed that on Friday night in the 1-0 Game 7 conquest of the...
by Kenneth Cross | Jun 22, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Islanders, NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning
TAMPA -The Tampa Bay Lightning needed to return to several things in order to take the upper hand in the series against the Islanders and they accentuated all of those objectives and more on Monday Night as they dominated the New York Islanders, 8-0, to take a 3-2...