Author: Clark Brooks

A conversation with former GM and current Executive Director of Community Hockey Development Jay Feaster

By Clark Brooks | Feb 28th 2019 | 16 min read |

Jay Feaster secured his place in Tampa Bay Lightning history as the general manager of the Bolts when the team rose from below mediocrity to the very ...

NBC Sports Network fills a long-empty void for NHL fans as a legitimate alternative to ESPN

By Clark Brooks | Feb 22nd 2019 | 6 min read |

Complaining about hockey’s absence from cable television heavyweight ESPN has become as much a part of being a hockey fan as knowing all the wor...

The Southeast this week

By Clark Brooks | Feb 19th 2019 | 5 min read |

Hi there! Matt Amos, your usual host for this weekly walking tour of the division we all know and love, has apparently gone out and gotten himself som...

Thanks and good night

By Clark Brooks | May 28th 2018 | 6 min read |

I’ve been a part of the Raw Charge staff since June of 2010, after being recruited by the site’s founder, John Fontana. It’s time for me to move...

The results are in: the 2017-18 season in polls

By Clark Brooks | May 25th 2018 | 14 min read |

“Marketing used to be easy. If you had a used car lot and you offered free hot dogs and balloon animals for the kids on a Saturday, a few extra peop...

This week’s Tampa Bay Lightning poll: where’s the party?

By Clark Brooks | May 18th 2018 | 2 min read |

The NHL is full of silly rules, always has been, probably always will be. To the league’s credit, they’re not above changing some of them from tim...

This week’s Tampa Bay Lightning poll: who wins the Eastern Conference Championship?

By Clark Brooks | May 11th 2018 | 2 min read |

“Wanna hear something crazy… I was on the bruins page and the responses were almost identical…only with the majority choosing the bruins to ...

This week’s Tampa Bay Lightning poll: what were THEY doing here?

By Clark Brooks | May 4th 2018 | 2 min read |

The best thing about being invited to an exclusive party is looking down your nose and lobbing disparaging remarks toward the poor schlubs who didn’...

This week’s Tampa Bay Lightning poll: who wins round 2?

By Clark Brooks | Apr 27th 2018 | 2 min read |

Here we go again, only different this time. Having knocked off their first round opponent, the New Jersey Devils, four games to one, the Tampa Bay Lig...

This week’s Tampa Bay Lightning poll: who’s coming along to round 2?

By Clark Brooks | Apr 20th 2018 | 2 min read |

The Lightning are in the best possible position they could be in, as it relates to their series with the New Jersey Devils, leading 3-1 heading in to ...