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…
Lightning Prospects
Lightning Training Camp Most Competitive in Years
The Tampa Bay Lightning are going to have the toughest training camp in a while. Not only is the team going to be pushed a little harder after missing the…
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…
Dotchin’s Compete Should Equal NHL Success
Much like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Yanni Gourde’s recent two-year contract extension, defenseman Jake Dotchin’s recent success has earned him his own two-year, one-way extension. The deal carries an $812,500…
Yanni Gourde Earned His Lightning Contract
Some players like Steven Stamkos or Brayden Point jump straight from Major Junior to the National Hockey League and some take a couple years of grooming in the American Hockey…
Cal Looks to Leave His Own Foote-Prints in the NHL
With their first pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, the Tampa Bay Lightning selected Callan Foote at 14th overall, the son of former defenseman Adam who won two Stanley Cups…
Lightning Prospect Ben Thomas
The 2017 NHL Entry Draft has come and gone and the Tampa Bay Lightning selected six players to fill their prospect ranks. While most, if not all, of those six…
Get To Know Alexander Volkov
One of the biggest surprises of the draft was the second-round pick spent on 20-year-old Alexander Volkov by the Tampa Bay Lightning. The native of Moscow, Russia, didn’t have much…
Lightning & Crunch Have a Promising Future
Tyler Johnson, Andrej Sustr, Richard Panik, Ondrej Palat, Vladislav Namestnikov, Brett Connolly, Radko Gudas. These names are familiar to most if not all hockey fans. While they may not still…
Oleg Sosunov Making Strides Towards NHL Dream
During the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, one of the biggest players to be picked was Oleg Sosunov (6’8″, 240-pounds). The Tampa Bay Lightning spent a sixth-round pick on him. Sosunov…
Lightning Prospects Excel for Canada
Back in November, it was announced that the Tampa Bay Lightning would have six of their prospects invited to Canada’s World Junior Championship U-20 camp for the chance to compete in…
Meet the 2016 Tampa Bay Lightning Black Aces
Over the recent history of the NHL, most if not all of the playoff teams bring up a group of AHL players in their system to be the “Black Aces”…