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...
It has been a long year for the Dallas Stars when it has come to exchanging challenges with the Tampa Bay Lightning, who took down Dallas, 4-2, for the Stanley Cup and then Tampa Bay had dominated the elongated season series 6-1-0 coming into Friday night's 5-2 loss...
For a brief moment, the Dallas Stars thought the door may have opened, but then it immediately was slammed as the Tampa Bay Lightning pulled away from Dallas to take a 6-2 win in Amalie Arena on Wednesday night. Trailing 3-1 midway through the third period, Dallas...
Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped all 20 shots and a smothering Lightning forecheck made it tough for the Dallas Stars to even get 20 pucks at Vasilevskiy as the Lightning shut out the Stars, 3-0 on in Amalie Arena on Thursday evening. The Tampa...
One shift off of the face-off in overtime and that is all it took. The Tampa Bay Lightning needed that extra point that Victor Hedman gave them when Brayden Point's connection with Hedman in front of the goal spelled a 4-3 Lightning win over the stubborn Columbus Blue...
TAMPA -The Carolina Hurricanes were looking for push back after last night's 3-2 overtime loss to the the tenor and tenacity of Tuesday night's 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said the Hurricanes needed to "up the ante" after...
Tampa Bay's Yanni Gourde scored at 2:50 into overtime as the Tampa Bay Lightning held off a stubborn Carolina come back and drew within one point of the Central Division leading Hurricanes with a 3-2 win in Amalie Arena Monday evening. Gourde took a pass from Alex...
The shuffle between the Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes has been an intriguing watch with no team able to take command in the Central Division. Florida's 5-3 win on Saturday night over the Tampa Bay Lightning was no different as the...
TAMPA - Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Christopher Gibson received a rude return to the NHL on Sunday afternoon as the Detroit Red Wings netted three goals in the last 3:55 of the second period to roll past Tampa Bay, 5-1, in the second game of a back-back. Gibson, a...
TAMPA - The Tampa Bay Lightning opened Saturday's 2-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings by looking to start another string of wins. The Bolts ended a season-high three-game losing streak on Thursday with a 3-2 win over the Blue Jackets as it also ended a rough...
TAMPA -- Nashville Predators center Callie Jarnkrok scored a goal and added three assists as the Predators erupted with a three-goal second period en route to a 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Amalie Arena Monday afternoon. It was Nashville's first win of the...
