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 John Zielonka | Jun 25, 2021 | Homepage, NHL, Seattle Kraken
The Seattle Kraken named Dave Hakstol as their inaugural head coach for the upcoming NHL season. Prior to joining the NHL’s newest franchise, Hakstol was the Toronto Maple Leafs assistant coach for the last two seasons. His previous NHL experience included a...
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...
