Victor Hedman

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 […]

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 […]

Quick Strikes: Reviewing the Past Three Weeks

It’s just past American Thanksgiving, the time in which teams can legitimately assess their postseason chances. Three weeks ago, the Tampa Bay Lightning had struggled to hold leads late in games despite solid goaltending from two career backups, couldn’t win in overtime to save their life, and had a single win in four games away […]

Tampa Bay Lightning 2023-24’ Season Preview

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Hockey is back in the Bay, and that brings about excitement and even some nerves. For the Tampa Bay Lightning, the 2023-24’ season sees change to the team’s identity after a six game first round series loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs ended their streak of three […]

Steven Stamkos on the ice for the Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning’s High Expectations Make Early Exit Feel Like a Failure

After three straight Stanley Cup Final appearances, the Tampa Bay Lightning entered the 2022-23 season expecting to make the playoffs and advance past the first round. Keeping that in mind, one can imagine the shock and disbelief players, coaches, and management felt when their season ended on April 29, 2023. For the math nuts, that’s […]

Lightning Need More From Their Stars

While the Tampa Bay Lightning avoided elimination in Game 5, they didn’t get any scoring out of their star players. Going forward, that can’t continue happening if they plan to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs. The top line of Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point, and Nikita Kucherov has a combined four goals in five games. They […]