absolute-hockey Stories - Raw Charge
Question Of The Week: Oren Koules WTF?!?!
Oh, put a microphone in front of a man's face in a room full of bored hockey reporters and see what happens next... With the hockey press on the prowl at the NHL's Research and Development Camp in Toronto last week, former Lightning co-owner Oren Koules let it slip that he's been talking to Gary...
Tampa Bay's uniform design has reached the end of its thread
The 2007 Tampa Bay Lightning logo and jersey designs have reached the end of their life. They've never really been reflected upon and rallied around as a symbol of pride, at least not compared to the more memorable logos and uniforms from other franchises around pro sports. The jerseys themselves...
Fashion changes ahead for Lightning?
Years ago, before the Lightning were going to be sold to Absolute Hockey or OK Hockey, the Lightning were looking into updating the Lightning jersey with something fresh. With the introduction of Reebok Edge, the Bolts went with the smock-like designs for the home and road jerseys (as well as...
The forgotten local interest in owning the Tampa Bay Lightning
With the recent news about the Lightning defaulting on their loan to Palace Sports and Entertainment and problems meeting payroll, comparisons to the Phoenix Coyotes have been been drawn... As well as the assumption Jim Balsillie is the only potential owner on the horizon. Not so. Last summer,...
Buyer's remorse - Tampa Bay's ownership squabble
The second anniversary of the Lightning franchise's sale-limbo just passed the other day as we noted here on Raw Charge. Absolute Hockey ended up breaking up in November of 2007 and Oren Koules formed OK Hockey (in which he partnered with Len Barrie as well as other investors) in December of...
Happy Anniversary?
(image via www.sptimes.com) Two years? Seems like yesterday... no, strike that. It seems like last week... yeah, some distance but not that long ago at all... What I'm talking about is an anniversary for the Lightning franchise and principle owner Oren Koules. Two years ago this morning, a...
Finances and media driven hysteria
It was easy to get caught up in the mass hysteria over Swine Flu with thanks to what the media was generating about it: Pandemic panic. For all inherit purposes, it was like Stephen King's "Captain Tripps" super flu bug had invaded the world and there would be a mass die off... Or that was the...
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