Category: Lightning history and site archives

Things that didn't happen in August: The Lightning are sold to Absolute Hockey

By Justin G. | Aug 21st 2023 | 11 min read |

Selling a successful franchise is easy, right? Well, not always....

Breaking down Brayden Point's 2020 goal in the fifth overtime of Game 1

By Justin G. | Aug 11th 2023 | 7 min read |

How about a trip down memory lane?...

Kicking off Random Trade Week with the anniversary of the Alexandre Daigle trade

By Justin G. | Jan 29th 2023 | 6 min read |

Twenty-four years ago today, the Tampa Bay Lightning had just finished celebrating one of the few happy times of the 1998-99 NHL season. They had succ...

Random Trade #42: Bellows for Bureau

By Justin G. | Nov 28th 2022 | 4 min read |

Sometimes, I get a wild idea in my head and then I run with it. This time, I wanted to pick some random trades out of Lightning history and write abou...

Random Trade #14: Let’s Hear it for The Herb

By Justin G. | Nov 28th 2022 | 4 min read |

Sometimes, I get a wild idea in my head and then I run with it. This time, I wanted to pick some random trades out of Lightning history and write abou...

Lightning Season Review: 2011-12 NHL Season

By Justin G. | Jul 29th 2022 | 7 min read |

We’re into the height of the offseason and quite frankly, there isn’t much to talk about. So I put the years that the Lightning have existed into ...

Who’s Next For a Silver Stick with the Tampa Lightning?

By Justin G. | Jul 14th 2022 | 8 min read |

Throughout the Tampa Bay Lightning’s franchise history, there have been eight players that have played in their 1,000th career NHL game while wearin...

Tampa Bay Lightning Sweater Series: Number 33

By Justin G. | Oct 26th 2020 | 11 min read |

Many, many, many years ago (six), Raw Charge started a series to help pass the time through the dog days of summer. As the offseason grinds on, we fig...

Tampa Bay’s long journey to becoming a Stanley Cup Champion, Part One

By Matthew Esteves | Sep 26th 2020 | 6 min read |

The journey is over! The Tampa Bay Lightning have become champions once again with their 2-0 victory over the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of the 2020 Stanl...

How the 2020 Eastern Conference Champions Tampa Bay Lightning roster was built

By Justin G. | Sep 20th 2020 | 15 min read |

After a few seasons of coming up short, the Tampa Bay Lightning finally made it back to the Stanley Cup Final. While the first game didn’t go as pla...