Category: 2012 NHL Lockout

An open letter to Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik

By John Fontana | Dec 5th 2012 | 4 min read |

Dear Mr. Vinik, It’s impossible to overstate the fondness that fans and residents in the Tampa Bay area have for you with regards to your commit...

2012 NHL Lockout: Player/owners meeting will include Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik

By John Fontana | Dec 3rd 2012 | 3 min read |

Last week, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman pitched the idea that owners and players meet face-to-face, mano y mano, without brass from the NHL and NHLPA...

NHL lockout 2012: An airing of grievances

By Cassie McClellan | Nov 27th 2012 | 4 min read |

The NHL lockout has reached idiotic proportions. Wait. I guess it did that a while ago. Insert your own descriptor here, I guess. It’s not so mu...

2012 NHL lockout: Rushing things in the off-season

By John Fontana | Nov 20th 2012 | 3 min read |

Normally, our stories that have centered on the 2012 NHL lockout have been about the failure during negotiations that has repeated over and over and o...

B.J. Crombeen to join Orlando Solar Bears

By John Fontana | Nov 16th 2012 | 2 min read |

Forward B.J. Crombeen, acquired from the St. Louis Blues over the summer, has yet to play an NHL game with the Tampa Bay Lightning franchise. No prese...

2012 NHL Lockout Diary: Day Who Cares?

By Clare Austin | Nov 15th 2012 | 3 min read |

So. How ’bout that lockout, huh? Yeah. Word came down today by ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun that without some kind of movement within the next sev...

Is the Tampa Bay Lightning roster set once the lockout ends?

By John Fontana | Nov 7th 2012 | 5 min read |

If this was September 2012, it’d be pretty understandable for Tampa Bay Lightning fans and media to speculate on the training camp roster and ro...

2012 NHL Lockout: The morning after Saturday's epic meeting

By John Fontana | Nov 4th 2012 | 2 min read |

Perhaps you were one of several fans who I crossed last night on Twitter who were still up until the wee small hours of Sunday morning, waiting for th...

2012 NHL Lockout: Saturday night live

By John Fontana | Nov 3rd 2012 | 3 min read |

Despite the cancellation of the NHL Winter Classic on Friday, serving as just another negative in the ongoing malaise of the 2012 NHL lockout, NHL Dep...

TSN's Bob McKenzie picks Cory Conacher as a would-be Calder Award winner

By John Fontana | Oct 23rd 2012 | 3 min read |

You can’t blame idle hockey pundits from musing about a would-be NHL season. They’ve got to do something to pass the time while they wait ...