More than four years ago, a chart by James Mirtle showed (through attendance) how the situation in Tampa was on a torrid decline. Four years later, we revisit that chart to reflect how things have been thriving.
It wouldn't be wrong for Tampa Bay civic leaders to step up and show support for a Tampa Bay Lightning bid to host the NHL All-Star game or Draft.
As the saying goes, you can't fire 23 guys so you fire the coach. Of course, you can't fire an entire organization, either.
With the uneven conferences in the new NHL realignment scenario, the league is obviously looking at expansion. If they were a successful company, this is probably how they would likely go about doing that.
This new plan appears TV friendly and could boost the ratings locally and nationally.
The 2013 season has seen every Lightning home game announced as a sellout and puts the Bolts near the top of the NHL in attendance.
Not everyone is absolutely thrilled that the NHL is back. Some of us just aren't able to muster up the same kind of enthusiasm as others.
Continuing a trend of NHL owners addressing fans on Monday, the Tampa Bay Lightning released a statement from team owner Jeff Vinik.
Sunday has been a weird day that followed 113 other weird days for hockey fans. Very early this morning, Gary Bettman stood in the middle of a media scrum pressed up against his mortal enemy Don...
You'll see hype, you'll see collective sighs of relief, you'll see rejoicing... But don't get caught up in the revelry. The NHL has aggrieved you, the fans, and an end to the lockout doesn't even begin to make amends.
Talks collapse and so does the hockey world.
A respectful plea for compromise, for reconciliation, and an end to the 2012 NHL lockout.
The best way tod iscribe fans continuing displeasure is to site the fact the ongoing labor strife has rid the NHL fanbase of any positive morale.
This is purely my own opinion, but...wow, do we all suck at this NHL lockout thing or what?
What if the NHL and NHLPA threw a party and I went and watched the Syracuse Crunch instead?
I bet you're getting sick and tired of these lockout posts. I know I am. I'm sick and tired of the sheer stupidity of two groups of reasonably smart people being unable to even get into the same...
The Tampa Bay Lightning owner and his partners walk away from Anglo-Irish Bank, who controls the foreclosed property.
Months of posturing and rhetoric and hard-line stances have given away to what should have been a starting point in labor negotiation talks between the NHL and NHLPA. So what changed that led to the league dropping it's hardline stance?
People didn't like the Matrix sequels much. It was hard to link the cocky-confused hacker version of Neo from the original movie with the superhero/deity version of the former Thomas Anderson of...
Between a New York Post report and an anonymous owner's suggestion the league is losing money, the notion NHL owners are out to simply dominate labor and the NHL Players Association rings true once again.
While fan discontent is bubbling over at the threat of a NHL work stoppage, the discontent lacks teeth because fans lack unity and organization.
Though it's been thrown out by idle fans over the years, contract restructuring and renegotiation in the 2012 NHL labor negotiations does not seem like it a discussed subject.
NHL ownership made a fresh offer to the Players Association on Tuesday. It's movement, it's a dialogue but is it progress?
If the NHL season doesn't start on time, there are options to get your hockey fix in and around Tampa. And if the NHL does start late, then the league likely has a plan for that already.
The NHLPA is trying to prevent being locked out and NHL fans are upset and feeling powerless about it. But maybe both groups can help each other out.
