Category: Crunch News

Quick Strikes: Syracuse Crunch hire new assistant coach Eric Veilleux

By Hardev | Jun 27th 2019 | 9 min read |

The Bolts Yesterday, the Syracuse Crunch announced that they have hired Halifax Mooseheads head coach Eric Veilleux to be the newest assistant coach b...

Quick Strikes: Carter Verhaeghe wins AHL scoring title for Syracuse Crunch

By Hardev | Apr 15th 2019 | 5 min read |

The Bolts The Tampa Bay Lightning are down 3-0 in their first-round playoff series to the eighth-seed Columbus Blue Jackets. There’s nothing good to...

The crease shift continues -- Lightning place G Kevin Poulin on waivers

By John Fontana | Mar 5th 2019 | 3 min read |

The tale in-the-crease continues to play out this weekend. We already touched on the fact it looked like Ben Bishop may be tabbed to start both the Wi...

As the Lightning roster cutdown looms, so does the Syracuse Crunch's European visit

By John Fontana | Mar 5th 2019 | 2 min read |

It was implied Wednesday morning by GM Steve Yzerman that the bulk (if not complete) roster cut-down from training-camp size to perhaps the final rost...

The earned opportunity of minor league defenseman Charlie Dodero

By John Fontana | Mar 5th 2019 | 4 min read |

“Nothing will ever be handed to you,” reads the biography line on the Twitter account of defenseman Charlie Dodero, who will be 23 years o...

The Florida Everblades affiliation with Lightning, Syracuse Crunch, comes to an end

By John Fontana | Mar 5th 2019 | 2 min read |

Since new ownership and management took over the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2010, the franchise has taken a broad focus on player development. Since then,...

Tampa Bay Lightning add system depth with LW Tye McGinn

By John Fontana | Mar 5th 2019 | 2 min read |

News broke Monday that depth winger Carter Ashton would be playing the 2015-16 season in Europe instead of another season in the AHL. With a hole crea...

Projecting the 2015-16 Crunch roster - Part 1: Forwards

By Justin G. | Mar 5th 2019 | 9 min read |

After a disappointing early playoff exit, I think it’s easy for us to agree that the Syracuse Crunch played over their heads through the season....

Lightning make grand training camp cuts, bringing Syracuse Crunch roster into focus

By John Fontana | Mar 2nd 2019 | 4 min read |

As Tampa Bay Lightning training camp opened on September 18th, 64 players were part of the initial undertaking of training and assessment. That camp l...

Tampa Bay Lightning trade Taormina, Tyrell to the Columbus organization in exchange for a pair of forwards

By Alexandra Ackerman | Feb 26th 2019 | 4 min read |

Crunch fans have been demanding moves. They’ve wanted action. They’ve said, practically yelled, that they needed something to happen. It&#...