Raw Charge, a Tampa Bay Lightning community

Raw Charge opens this fancy-fangled thread for you to use in discussing the beginning of the 2011 NHL free agency season.

Any fan can get self-involved in a team they are watching or talking about. And Brad Richards is not an exception.

Raw Charge's off-season social hour, the Tuesday Night Link-dump and Open-Thread is here once again. Join us.

There's nostalgia to have looming 2011 UFA Brad Richards return to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Can it work? Money and roster management say no. But it's not impossible.

Lyle's outdone himself... Or should I say Bruce Garrioch at the Ottawa Sun has outdone himself and Lyle at Spectors has simply called a spade a spade in simplicity and eloquence? Bruce will get us...