jeffrey-vinik Stories - Raw Charge
Tuesdays with Dani: Lightning are still in this playoff race (for now)
Are the Lightning going to be sellers or buyers at the trade deadline this season? Right now, it's too early to tell. Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun debate this topic on their daily debate on ESPN. Talk is that there is interest in Ryan Malone and pending UFA's Pavel Kubina and Dominic Moore....
Season Preview Part 1: "All In" - 2010-11 season recap
(Editor's Note: over the course of the next week, we'll be previewing the 2011-12 Tampa Bay Lightning season with a series of articles exploring the team) To recap the 2010-11 Tampa Bay Lightning season, you have to start in March 2010 when owner Jeffrey Vinik assumed control of the franchise. In...
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...
Is more OK Hockey coming to the NHL?
Oren Koules is in the stands, watching his son Miles perform during the NHL's research and development camp this week in Toronto. For the past several months, the former Lightning owner has been dealing with... well, lets face it, he's been dealing with the train wreck that is Charlie Sheen and...
Stammergeddon: Rumors, paranoia, and Tampa Bay sports
With the start of the 2011 NHL free agency season, and young star Steven Stamkos entering restricted free agency (meaning he could be tendered an offer sheet from any of the 29 other clubs, though the Bolts had the right to match any offer he received), some Lightning fans were dead certain that...
Question of the Week: Who Will the Lightning Miss the Most?
The NHL's "free agent feeding frenzy" has come and gone for another year. Some teams gained, some teams lost and there were a lot of big bucks thrown at some of those free agents. There were some minor league free agents lost by the Bolts, but for the purposes of this question, let's refer to the...





