Category: Enhance Your Experience

Hockey Day in Tampa Bay will feature a special homecoming guest

By Clark Brooks | Feb 1st 2015 | 3 min read |

The Lightning only have four home games during the month of February, but fans should be able to sate their hockey appetite on Sunday, February 15th, ...

Catching up with anthem singer Vanessa Rodriguez

By Clark Brooks | Jan 15th 2014 | 8 min read |

Lightning fans may have noticed an upgrade in terms of the pre-game presentation this season at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. That could be due at least ...

Off Topic: Cyber Monday applies to the Raw Charge store too

By John Fontana | Dec 3rd 2013 | 2 min read |

Today is considered the busiest online shopping day of the year – the day people go back to work and instead of being productive, they handle ho...

My first experience at the Shark Tank; visitng SAP Center for the Lightning at San Jose Sharks game

By Cassie McClellan | Nov 24th 2013 | 5 min read |

I have been to a number of NHL arenas over the years: St. Petersburg Times Forum (before the renovation), the Bridgestone Arena (Nashville Predators),...

A word on NHL Gamecenter Live

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

Raw Charge has writers all over North America, or has had writers all over North America in its four years… That is a difficulty in some cases f...

Of sports bars, sports bar horror stories, and sports bar apps

By Clark Brooks | Oct 28th 2013 | 5 min read |

The concept of sports bars has evolved a great deal in a relatively short time. It wasn’t long ago that any place that served chicken wings and ...

Advanced Stats Primer: Or, what we know and how we know it

By Clare Austin | Apr 30th 2012 | 11 min read |

This is a post that I’ve been adding to over the course of the season. What you may not realize is that in October, I consciously made a decisio...

To experience hockey at it's best, stop the constant changes to the game

By John Fontana | Nov 13th 2010 | 6 min read |

or the past two weeks, I’ve written articles touching on the fan experience and hockey. The first issue touched on television production of hockey g...

Traditions and the fan experience at Lightning home games

By John Fontana | Nov 6th 2010 | 5 min read |

What’s one thing that stands out and makes the fan experience at Tampa Bay Lightning games unique?  One thing that sets apart the St. Pete Time...

Less is more with NHL TV broadcasts, and the fan experience

By John Fontana | Oct 30th 2010 | 6 min read |

For one reason or another, producers who oversee NHL game coverage think that you want to watch hockey as intimately as possible.  They try to find n...