by Kenneth Cross | Jan 6, 2022 | Calgary Flames, Homepage, Inside Hockey, Tampa Bay Lightning
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...
by Kenneth Cross | Jul 8, 2021 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning
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...
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 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...
