Category: 2012 NHL Lockout

2013 Tampa Bay Lightning schedule released by NHL

By John Fontana | Jan 12th 2013 | 2 min read |

The 2012 NHL lockout is over and business as usual resumes in the National Hockey League. With this morning’s ratification of the 2013 NHL colle...

2013 NHL training sessions and the Tampa Bay Lightning

By John Fontana | Jan 6th 2013 | 2 min read |

This is a late night note that many will likely not come across until Monday morning when returning to work or whatever your morning schedule is on a ...

2013 NHL Lockout: It's OK to be excited about the end of the lockout

By Clare Austin | Jan 6th 2013 | 4 min read |

Sunday has been a weird day that followed 113 other weird days for hockey fans. Very early this morning, Gary Bettman stood in the middle of a media s...

2013 NHL Lockout: Tampa Bay Lightning players, it's finally time to report

By Cassie McClellan | Jan 6th 2013 | 2 min read |

Okay, kids. Here we go. We’ve got a hockey season on our hands after all. So you know what that means – we’re going to need players ...

The gift of the game this holiday season

By John Fontana | Dec 20th 2012 | 4 min read |

The season of the Yule, the winter solstice and the multiple holidays that dot the calendar to coincide it (be they religious, cultural or pop-culture...

2012 NHL Lockout: Socially speaking

By John Fontana | Dec 19th 2012 | 2 min read |

Social media holds little to no sway in these talks. Are they a good source for venting and news gathering? Absolutely. Are they – Twitter, Face...

2012 NHL Lockout: A null-and-void maneuver

By John Fontana | Dec 18th 2012 | 4 min read |

I’m a fan of the Tampa Bay Lightning franchise, that’s what’s keeping me around during the 2012-13 NHL lockout. My team is idled, bu...

2012 NHL Lockout: On stand-by

By John Fontana | Dec 11th 2012 | 3 min read |

Commissioner Gary Bettman’s theatrics not withstanding, or the sycophantism from Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly for that matter, the NHL and NHL ...

2012 NHL Lockout Diary: Day 1,415,893*: Implosion

By Clare Austin | Dec 8th 2012 | 5 min read |

It’s 10:00 pm CT on Thursday, Dec. 6. I’ve been sitting here for approximately the past 3 hours watching the top professional hockey leagu...

2012 NHL Lockout: Major assists by Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and GM Steve Yzerman in labor talks

By John Fontana | Dec 5th 2012 | 2 min read |

The owner-player meeting in New York is ongoing as I write this post. It had briefly adjourned for a little more than an hour for dinner at around 7:3...