Kyle Turris and the Ottawa Senators made the biggest jump in this week's power rankings. (Photo: Bridget Samuels)
The NHL season has been fun to watch this season. With the season nearly halfway over, many teams have positioned themselves for a Stanley Cup run. With the schedule shortened to 48 games, each game is more important than in y [...]
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NHL Elite Eight (February 27th)
Kyle Turris and the Ottawa Senators made the biggest jump in this week's power rankings. (Photo: Bridget Samuels)
The NHL season has been fun to watch this season. With the season nearly halfway over, many teams have positioned themselves for a Stanley Cup run. With the schedule shortened to 48 games, each game is more important than in y [...]
Lightning Beat Maple Leafs, 4-2
TAMPA – In a game chock-full of fights the Tampa Bay Lightning were able to score four goals on a relatively low amount of shots to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 on Tuesday night. Last season, the Leafs swept the season series against the Bolts, winning all four matchups. This season the Leafs have been tough on the road and goali [...]
Bolts Comeback Falls Short in Shootou...
P.K. Subban and the Canadiens let a three-goal lead slip away only to win in a shootout on Tuesday.
TAMPA – The Montreal Canadiens dominated the first two periods against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night, but a strong third period and some lucky bounces helped the Bolts steal a point in a 4-3 shootout loss. The Lightning returne [...]
Road Woes Continue as Lightning Fall ...
The Tampa Bay Lightning have been dismal on the road this season.
NEW YORK – The Tampa Bay Lightning began this season as one of the hottest teams in the NHL, but that was mostly at home. The blizzard in Boston welcomed the Bolts and although the NHL postponed the match-up on Saturday night the game being moved was a good thing because [...]
NHL Elite Eight (February 11th)
Patrick Kane and the Blackhawks have still yet to be defeated in regulation. (Photo: Bridget Samuels)
In previous weeks, every team in the NHL has been ranked. This week, that is going to change and the focus will be on the top 8 teams. This week’s top 8 takes four teams from the Eastern Conference and four from the Western Conference. [...]
Bolts Lose to Gritty Flyers, 2-1
Ilya Bryzgalov was near flawless for Philadelphia on Tuesday night.
PHILADELPHIA – The Tampa Bay Lightning ended their early season homestand with a loss against the New York Rangers on Saturday night. The Rangers held the top-scoring offense in the league to only one goal, and on Tuesday night against the Philadelphia Flyers was more o [...]
Five Questions for St. Pete Mayor Bil...
Is Tropicana Field the worst stadium in baseball?
Last week, it was reported that Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg told the Pinellas County Commissioners that only 300 season ticket holders live in St. Petersburg. This number equates to around 1,000 tickets, and coming from someone who lives in Tampa this is downright offensive. The Mayo [...]
NHL Power Rankings (February 3rd)
Antti Niemi and the Sharks have yet to lose in regulation.
NHL teams have now played between seven and 10 games and top teams are beginning to emerge. Here are this week’s power rankings for games played through February 2nd:
1) San Jose Sharks (7-0-1), Last Week: 1 – Eight games in and still without a loss in regulation keeps the [...]
Lightning Remain Perfect at Home, Bea...
The Lightning have been nearly unstoppable at home this season scoring at least four goals in every home game.
TAMPA – The beginning of the NHL season has been full of uncertainty, but after six games, the Tampa Bay Lightning have been able to jump out to an early lead in the Southeast division. After bashing the bullies from Broad Stre [...]
NHL Power Rankings (January 27th)
Patrick Marleau and the San Jose Sharks are off to a 4-0 start.
The chase for the Stanley Cup has begun. The NHL season dropped the first puck last Saturday after a four-month lockout and teams were ready to go. Some top performers have started out in a different way than many expected while surprise teams have made a statement early in this [...]
Malone Leads Bolts Past Sens, 6-4
Vincent Lecavalier was honored before the game for playing in 1,000 career games for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
TAMPA – Tampa Bay Lightning captain and former number one overall pick in the 1998 draft, Vincent Lecavalier, played in his 1,000th career game on Monday against the New York Islanders, and on Friday night in Tampa he was presen [...]
Bolts Take Two of First Three
Vincent Lecavalier has four points on the young season for Tampa Bay.
The last time there was a lockout in the NHL, the Tampa Bay Lightning were coming off a Stanley Cup championship and were easily hurt the most of any team in the league. Terrible owners whose claim to fame was the ‘Saw’ movies nearly ran the team into the ground before sell [...]
Preseason NHL Power Rankings
Sidney Crosby's return will make Pittsburgh the NHL's team to beat.
The NHL drops the puck on Saturday. A new season is about to begin and it’s been difficult to keep up with a lockout-filled offseason. Many teams look to come back healthy and make another run at the Stanley Cup. Others look to show fans that hockey is the same [...]
Another NHL Lockout?
Commissioner Gary Bettman (left) seems content with letting another lockout happen on his watch.
Reasons Why the 2012-13 NHL Season Can’t be Lost (but probably will be anyway)
The NHL lost an entire season in 2004-05, it was devastating to professional hockey in the USA, where it is largely considered a fringe sport just above Major League So [...]
Bolts Get Lindback From Predators
As I reported on May 9th, the Tampa Bay Lightning were in need of a goalie for the 2012-2013 season. Well now they will have a good young competition going into training camp as they acquired Anders Lindback from the Nashville Predators late Friday afternoon.
The Lightning sent 2 second round draft picks in next Friday’s NHL Draft, a 20 [...]
Through the Beer(man’s) Goggles...
Nick Mamalis is a full time baseball "beerman".
Hello Sports fans! I just got back from Friday’s Marlins vs. Giants game and wow what a game! The Giants lost. Woo Hoo! I am sorry for the joyous exclamation if there are any Giants fans in the reading audience.
It was Josh Johnson against Tim Lincecum on Friday night and let me tell y [...]
Bolts News And Notes (May 9)
Nate Thompson, J.T. Brown, Victor Hedman and Teddy Purcell are taking part in the World Championship of Hockey. Thompson and Brown with the USA, Purcell with Canada and Hedman with Sweden.
Former Lightning goalie Mike Smith has led the Phoenix Coyotes into the Western Conference Finals against the Los Angeles Kings. Do you remember when Smith [...]
Lightning 2011-2012 Season in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning ended their 2011-2012 season Saturday night with an exciting overtime victory in Winnipeg. But that’s where the excitement ends as the Bolts are not heading to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. A year removed from a deep run in the post season that saw them fall just a goal short of the Stanley Cup Finals, the team had a [...]
