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Ownership: Unplugged. Lightning Q and A event tomorrow night

  There has been a great deal of movement with the Tampa Bay Lightning int he last 72 hours.  From promotions and demotions through the system to the NHL trade deadline, closing with the o...

Esposito is not a front office cure-all for Lightning

It would seem like every time there is an issue with the Lightning franchise, the name of Hockey Hall of Famer and franchise founder Phil Esposito is invoked.  Esposito's name, to long time Ligh...

Report: NHL negotiating sale of Lightning to hedge fund manager

The Hockey News reported on their web site earlier this evening that the National Hockey League is negotiating with a Boston hedge fund manager to purchase the Lightning, control of the St. Pete Times...

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 w...

Report: OK Hockey in default on Palace Sports Loan

Bruce MacLeod, a Red Wings beat reporter for the Macomb Daily (a suburban Detroit newspaper), is reporting on his newspaper blog that, allegedly, OK Hockey has gone into default on it's loan from...

Jeff Greene out as potential investor in the Tampa Bay Lightning

Only a day after we posted a reminder about the unsettled situation with ownership of the Tampa Bay Lightning franchise, the situation's unresolved status became further highlighted. Erik Erlendsson o...

What's next with ownership?

We're nine games into the NHL season and the last thing fans should want to do is put the sideshow of f ownership on the front burner again...  That's a distraction that is not welcome when you'd...

Contradictory reports on Len Barrie's ownership stake surface

It's late Friday night and two reports have surfaced in the last few minutes that paint starkly different pictures of the future of OK Hockey partner Len Barrie and his future with the Tampa Bay Light...

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 ...

2009 NHL Draft Eve Open Thread

Less than 24 Hours until the 2009 NHL Entry Draft at the Bell Centre in Montreal.  When was the last time the #1 draft pick (and #2 and #3) was still in question in what is considered a strong dr...


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