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 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 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 Kenneth Cross | May 27, 2021 | Florida Panthers, Homepage, Nashville Predators, Tampa Bay Lightning
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,...