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...
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 | 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,...
by Jason Scales | Mar 8, 2020 | Boston Bruins, Homepage, Inside Hockey, NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning
Boston, MA – The second meeting in five days between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins, number two and one respectively in the Atlantic Division, was more than just a regular season affair. Tampa outlasted Boston 5-3 in front of 17,850 at TD Garden in a...