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...
by Kenneth Cross | Jun 16, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning
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...
by Kenneth Cross | Jun 13, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Islanders, NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning
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...
by Kenneth Cross | Jun 6, 2021 | Carolina Hurricanes, Homepage, Inside Hockey, Tampa Bay Lightning
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’...
by Kenneth Cross | Jun 4, 2021 | Carolina Hurricanes, Homepage, Inside Hockey, Tampa Bay Lightning
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...
by Angie Carducci | May 29, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins
The Penguins outplayed the New York Islanders for at least four, maybe five games of their six-game series. They dominated Games 5 and 6 by a wide margin. Friday, though, the Penguins were facing reporters’ questions via Zoom after their locker clean-outs and exit...
