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Florida Panthers Deep Dive Recap: 12/27-12/30

Sergei Bobrovsky. Aleksander Barkov. Sam Reinhart. These three players have been massive for the Panthers this week during their matchups with in-state rival the Tampa Bay Lightning, Metro Division leader the New York Rangers, and the Montreal Canadiens. Bobrovsky has been in Playoff form, and Barkov & Reinhart are arguably the hottest forward pairing in […]

Quick Strikes: Consistency Remains an Issue, Vasilevskiy Continues Heating Up & Stamkos’ First Career Four-Goal Game

Fresh off of another good week, collecting six of a possible eight points, the Tampa Bay Lightning trekked into Western Canada hoping to find some consistency in their game. Unfortunately, that didn’t occur. An early goal by Brayden Point didn’t hold up, with Brock Boeser notching a hat trick in a loss to the Vancouver […]

Lightning Struggling to Find Consistency This Season

Coming off a disappointing first-round exit after three straight deep playoff runs, the Tampa Bay Lightning seemed to be ready to go from the start of training camp. Once the regular season got underway, though, this team hasn’t been able to keep momentum from game to game, let alone period to period. After a nationally […]

The NHL’s Most Penalized Teams

Let’s examine some of the teams that have accumulated the highest penalty minutes (PIMs) during the 2023-24 season and contrast them with the team that has the fewest PIMs. The list is organized in descending order, starting with the most penalized team and going down to the fifth most penalized team. The Anaheim Ducks have […]

Oilers Game 27: Tampa Bay Lightning

I couldn’t even be mad when Connor Bedard opened the scoring on Tuesday night. Virtually no goalie in the league could’ve stopped his shot. It was a great pass from Alex Vlasic from his own zone to Bedard, waiting for the puck just over centre ice. I just feel bad for Evan Bouchard and Mattias […]

Quick Strikes: Hedman’s 1,000th Game Celebration, Vasilevskiy Shines, Cirelli Heats Up & Power Outage in Music City

Coming off of a bad week that saw the Tampa Bay Lightning fall out of a playoff spot, there was plenty of motivation heading into the first week of December. Home ice became sweet once again, with two regulation wins to start the week. Andrei Vasilevskiy got redemption for a poor outing two days prior, […]

Hedman Joins Rare Company by Reaching 1,000 NHL Games

The Tampa Bay Lightning have had a lot of great players don Bolts blue in their history. Only a few have played most of their careers in Tampa Bay, though. Monday night vs the Dallas Stars, defenseman Victor Hedman will join fellow teammates Steven Stamkos and Vincent Lecavalier as the third player to play 1,000 […]

Quick Strikes: Kucherov Named First Star for November, Road Woes Continue & Another Blown Multi Goal Lead

Coming off of a good week, earning points in five straight games, the Tampa Bay Lightning were riding high and in a playoff spot heading into this past week. Unfortunately, four straight regulation losses undid any of the good they had done and left many scratching their heads. The beginning of the week saw back-to-back […]

Stars Take Down Lightning 8-1

The Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning played the first game of their home-and-home series on Saturday afternoon. The Stars took down the Lightning 8-1 at the American Airlines Center. Dallas improved to 14-5-3, while Tampa Bay fell to 10-10-5. The Stars’ starting lineup featured Jani Hakanpää, Esa Lindell, Ty Dellandrea, Wyatt Johnston, Jamie Benn, and […]

NHL Games of the Week: December 3rd-9th

December has arrived, and we have another great week of NHL action coming up. Today, I’m going to choose the top five games on the schedule for December 3rd through the 9th. Let’s get into it. Colorado Avalanche vs LA Kings Dec. 3 This is a battle of two Western Conference powerhouses. The Avalanche currently […]