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For a long time sports fan, its tough to point out your favorite sports highlight. Sometimes, the highlight is simply having your doubts proven wrong.

Carter Ashton being dealt for Keith Aulie is not the first time the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs have exchanged a power forward for a defenseman.

Though fans will still struggle to accept things, Lightning GM Steve Yzerman explains the moves the Lightning have made the past week.

Martin St. Louis' addition to the Tampa Bay Lightning was an after-thought in 2000. 11 years later, Marty scored his 300th goal with the club.

The 2010-11 Tampa Bay Lightning season gets underway tonight with the Lightning taking on their southeast division rivals, the Atlanta Thrashers.

His ownership reign lasted all of nine months, but Art Williams is remembered for being outspoken and bombastic more than he is remembered for saving a debt-ridden franchise.

Our weekly open thread and link dujmp commences NOW! We're talking Gagne, we're talking Lightning, we're talking, and talking, and talking, and talking, and....

Rick Dudley presided over the Lightning's draft from 1999 until 2001. Of the 33 players selected during that time, only one was playing in the NHL by 2009-10.

Jeffrey Vinik's first hiring and how it happened tells us things about the owner. Lets look back at other Lightning owners and what their first hires told us.