Lightning: Odds That Each Pending UFA Gets a Contract Extension Eugene Helfrick | April 24, 2021 As the Tampa Bay Lightning navigate their way through the remainder of the 2020-21 regular season, let’s take a look towards the near future called the 2021 offseason. While that…
Revisiting the Lightning’s Blockbuster Coleman Trade Eugene Helfrick | February 21, 2021 A full week before the 2020 trade deadline, the Tampa Bay Lightning made one of the biggest splashes of the season when they acquired veteran forward Blake Coleman from the…
The Devils’ 2020 Fire Sale: One Year Later Michael Dominski | February 17, 2021 This week marks the one-year anniversary of a flurry of Devils’ trades. The team made two deals on Feb. 16, 2020, and another three eight days later at the trade…
Predicting the Lightning’s 2020-21 Bottom Six Forwards Eugene Helfrick | January 3, 2021 Whenever a franchise wins the Stanley Cup in the salary cap era, you know that change will soon follow. It’s hard enough to keep great teams together, but with the…
Lightning’s 3rd Line Key to a Successful 2020-21 Season Zach Seifter | December 17, 2020 They’re fast, they’re physical, they’re hard-working and they’re clutch. They set the tone in almost every game and every period in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. And they were arguably…
Golden Knights Trade Targets for 2020-21 Michael Vidakis | November 27, 2020 The Vegas Golden Knights, whose history has been generally short, seeing as they entered the league in 2017-18, have quickly become a model for what a consistent franchise should look…
Lightning’s 3 Best Contracts for 2021 Eugene Helfrick | November 13, 2020 For the Tampa Bay Lightning, a cap crunch was an inevitability. Locking down core players to meaningful extensions adds up quickly, and even if everything had progressed as normal throughout…
Lightning Getting What They Paid for in Coleman Eugene Helfrick | September 5, 2020 Whenever you make a trade in any sport, there is an inherent risk involved. Giving up future assets for a player that can help you now is far from an…
Top Canadiens Targets to Hypothetically Replace Danault Ryan Szporer | August 28, 2020 The best-case scenario for the Montreal Canadiens is clear with regard to No. 1 center Phillip Danault. Ideally, Danault will stay on past next season, when his contract expires, but…
Traded Devils Paying Dividends For New Playoff Teams Christian Thorsberg | August 20, 2020 After last summer’s marquee additions of P.K. Subban, Jack Hughes, Wayne Simmonds, and Nikita Gusev, cautious optimism surrounded a New Jersey Devils team that had reached the postseason only once…
Blue Jackets/Lightning: 5 Specific Things To Watch For Mark Scheig | August 11, 2020 The Columbus Blue Jackets and Tampa Bay Lightning will kick off their first-round playoff matchup on Tuesday afternoon in Toronto. It is an eagerly anticipated rematch from last season when…
A Devils Fan’s Guide to the Stanley Cup Playoffs Dan Rice | July 31, 2020 The puck is about to drop on Stanley Cup Playoffs and once again the New Jersey Devils are not a part of it. But there are plenty of former Devils…