The Tampa Bay Lightning have consistently been able to start games in command of their opponents this season which has been a consistent effort to procure a win or gain at least a point in overtime. However, the Chicago Blackhawks and 18-year-old rookie Connor Bedard had other plans for Thursday night’s script at Amalie Arena.
The by-product of tough overtimes once again beset the Tampa Bay Lightning as Seattle’s Jared McCann scored on a power play goal from behind the slot at 2:53 to give the Kraken a 4-3 overtime win in Amalie Arena Monday evening.
The Tampa Bay Lightning began Thursday evening’s 6-0 win over the San Jose Sharks with a quick start as center Brayden Point and forward Mikey Eyssimont scored in the first six minutes to build a solid advantage over the NHL’s lone winless team.
Tampa Bay goalie Jonas Johansson dealt his first shutout of the season as the Lightning added a goal in each period to turn back the Carolina Hurricanes, 3-0, in Amalie Arena on Tuesday evening.
TAMPA – Toronto forward Matthew Knies scored two goals within 2:22 in the latter part of the third period and John Tavares scored the game-winner at 4:05 in overtime as the Maple Leafs rallied for a 4-3 OT win in Amalie Arena on Saturday evening.
Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov scored a pair of goals to break a 2-2 tie and lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks in Amalie Arena Thursday evening.
Venerable Tampa Bay right winger Nikita Kucherov scored two goals and Lightning defenseman Nick Paul met him with a pair of third-period scores as the Tampa Bay Lightning downed the Nashville Predators, 5-3, on the opening night for both teams.
TAMPA - The Tampa Bay Lightning are long noted for consistency of being positioned to make the kill or the goal needed to stoke another victory in the 'W" column. That's when Lightning center Anthony Cirelli came to the dance when he pushed in a puck off of a pass by...
TAMPA - For two consecutive seasons, Nikita Kucherov has gone down for months and been unavailable and when he came back, he provided the same wizardry with the puck that he would have if he had been skating through those injured periods. Kucherov delivered two...
TAMPA - Mika Zibanejad punched in the third New York Rangers shot of Friday night's shootout to lift the Rangers to a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena. The goal came at the hands of Lightning backup goalie Brian Elliott, who had only been slated...
TAMPA - Victor Hedman and Steven Stamkos have had to take more aggressive roles with the Tampa Bay Lightning this season with the addition of new players and the loss of depth in the third and fourth lines. The Lightning took a 2-1 win over Ottawa on Thursday night as...
TAMPA - Thursday's 4-2 Tampa Bay Lightning win over the St. Louis Blues had a roller coaster effect with all the momentum changes as it was extra competitive after the Blues had won a 4-3 overtime outing just two nights earlier at Enterprise Center in St. Louis. Blues...
TAMPA - Tampa Bay winger Steven Stamkos was the only skater to find the back of the net in the shootout Sunday night and backup goalie Brian Elliott made two outstanding saves as the Tampa Bay Lightning survived a late Minnesota rush to take a 5-4 shootout win push...
By Kenneth Cross TAMPA - The Florida Panthers are doing best to stoke a rivalry with the back-to-back Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning, but with the history of these franchises, the Panthers have a long way to go to get up to speed. However, on Saturday night...
TAMPA - It's been talked about ad nauseam, but the loss of players to free agency on this Tampa Bay Lightning team has caused some restructuring and on the job learning from younger players as well as veterans who have been put in different situations. Monday night's...
TAMPA - The Colorado Avalanche came into Tampa Bay, much in the same mode as the Lightning, as they also had less of a start to the young season than what many imagined, but Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and an two assists as Cale Makur stuck the deciding goal in the...
By Kenneth Cross TAMPA - The presence of Nikita Kucherov for the Tampa Bay Lightning is somewhat synonymous with the presence of Tom Brady at quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He's the cog in the machine, the grape in the wine, or any analogy that fosters...
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...
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 in front of him...
TAMPA - ACDC belts Thunderstruck more in Amalie Arena than it did on any one of it's concert tours from yesteryear and it was appropriately recreated at 19:59 into the second period of Tampa Bay's 3-1 win over Montreal in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It was a...
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 loss in...
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 New...
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...
TAMPA - With the vaunted Nikita Kucherov quarterbacking the offense much in the same way Tom Brady quarterbacks the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' offense, the Tampa Bay Lightning used three assists from Kucherov en route to a 4-2 win over the New York Islanders on Tuesday...
TAMPA - The Tampa Bay Lightning expect tight checking from the New York Islanders and low scoring games in a rematch of last season's NHL Eastern Conference Finals. The Lightning got what they expected from the mantra of the New York Islanders on Sunday afternoon as...
TAMPA - The call to arms in the NHL Playoffs seems to never appear in a similar fashion. Saturday afternoon in Amalie Arena, it took four Carolina Hurricanes' goals in an 8:11 stretch to morph into a plethora of Lightning strikes from the Bolts' frontline players...
TAMPA - Carolina center Jordan Staal deflected Sebastian Aho's one-timer into the net from the inner half of the left circle as the Carolina Hurricanes fought off the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-2, in overtime at Amalie Arena on Thursday night to slice the Lightning lead...
TAMPA - A championship mentality, the cohesion of a stellar set of lines and special teams units and the "elite" play of the NHL's top goalie in Andrei Vasilevskiy saw the Tampa Bay Lightning halt the Florida Panthers, 4-0, on Wednesday night, and win the hotly...
TAMPA - The defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning had the flex of a champion on Saturday afternoon as they jumped to a 2-0 lead just 7:24 into the first period en route to a dominating 6-2 win over the Florida Panthers in Game 4 of the best of seven...
TAMPA - The stealth of a cat is why legend and myth says it has nine lives and on Thursday evening the Tampa Bay Lightning experienced all the lives that the Florida Panthers had into offer as in the end, Ryan Lomberg provided a reincarnation for the the Panthers, who...
