Category: International Hockey

Lightning Round: Finding the former Bolts at the Spengler Cup

By Hardev | Dec 20th 2019 | 5 min read |

Yesterday, Team Canada announced their Spengler Cup roster, equipped with a myriad of former NHL and AHL players. The other five rosters, club teams f...

Nikita Gusev contemplates joining his best friend in North America

By Justin G. | Mar 5th 2019 | 3 min read |

Nikita Gusev, a 7th round draft choice by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2012, recently had an interview with SportsDaily.ru that was translated by Alessa...

No World Junior Championships for Tampa Bay in 2018

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

#Tampa is eliminated from bidding to host 2018 World Junior championship, finalists are Buffalo, Pittsburgh and St Louis — Erik Erlendsson (@erlends...

Of hockey events and Tampa Bay as host

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

Of all the grand hockey events that could be awarded by the powers-that-be to the Tampa Bay area by the International Ice Hockey Federation or the Nat...

Guy Boucher rides again; named new head coach of SC Bern in Switzerland

By John Fontana | Feb 26th 2019 | 2 min read |

It’s been a while since we’ve heard much of anything about former Lightning head coach Guy Boucher, who was dismissed from the Bolts in Ma...

What would it take for Tampa Bay to host the IIHF World Junior Championships?

By John Fontana | Feb 24th 2019 | 7 min read |

Prep sports in Florida are kind of a big deal. High school football, basketball, baseball, wrestling… Heck, it goes from the prep level to the c...

Former assistant coach Wayne Fleming has passed

By John Fontana | Feb 23rd 2019 | 2 min read |

One of our own has fallen. Wayne Fleming was one of our own. The use of “our” is not to depict Wayne as a possession of the Tampa Bay Ligh...

World Championships: USA versus Finland

By Cassie McClellan | Feb 16th 2019 | 2 min read |

The US lost to Finland at the World Championships Wednesday, 12 May, by a score of 3-2.The US went O-fer in the round robin preliminary rounds and fin...

World Championships: USA versus Germany

By Cassie McClellan | Feb 16th 2019 | 5 min read |

The United States lost to the host country Germany 2-1 in the opening game of the World Cup preliminary round. Judging from the highlights, which I am...

2010 Vancouver Olympic Hockey Game Thread Schedule

By Cassie McClellan | Feb 16th 2019 | 2 min read |

Here is a list of the games we play on having game threads for. The games were determined by level of interest and also be level of competition. I don...