The Lightning’s Undervalued Players
In order to have the best October in franchise history, the Tampa Bay Lightning needed just about everything to go right. Between the offensive domination of Steven Stamkos and Nikita…
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Star Power Propels Lightning to Record Start
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, the start to the 2017-18 season has, arguably, been the best case scenario. The team picked up right where they left off at the end of…
Budaj’s a Necessity for the Lightning
Backup goaltending is an important and often overlooked aspect of a team’s dynamic. When a team has a reliable backup, it allows them to spread the workload out just enough…
Mikhail Sergachev’s (Hopefully) Ready for Primetime
With the new season fast approaching, an important and exciting roster question was answered by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Mikhail Sergachev, the team’s biggest offseason acquisition, has made the Lightning’s…
Lightning Prospect Pool Gems
While preseason hockey is often maligned, it does present a rare opportunity for teams to evaluate everyone at once. From franchise centermen to new draft picks, ice time is plentiful…
What Are the Lightning’s Expectations?
At the start of each season, there is a belief that every team has a chance to win the Stanley Cup. It is impossible to predict what can happen over…
Long Path Taken For Vasilevskiy’s Future
In early 2013, there was a joke running around Tampa Bay Lightning fans that they should be sleeping with a framed picture of Andrei Vasilevskiy over their beds so they…
Lightning Have a Depth Problem
Depth is an important aspect of any team. While there are a few kinds of depth player, the types that have the biggest effect on a team are game time…
Tampa Bay Lightning Top 4 Prospects 2017
When Steve Yzerman took over the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2010, the organization had one of the weakest prospect pools in the NHL. Since then Yzerman and company have placed…
Lightning Create More Defensive Questions
Heading into the 2016-17 season, it looked like the Tampa Bay Lightning had assembled the best stable of defensemen for the franchise in the last decade. The team that had…
Lightning Struggle with 1st Round Picks
There’s no such thing as a sure pick at the NHL draft. No matter the caliber of the prospect, anything can happen from draft night throughout the player’s career. Injury…
Yzerman Has Defining Decisions to Make
At the start of the 2016-17 season, it looked like the Tampa Bay Lightning would be in a bad spot heading into the 2017 offseason. Between a number of high…