Category: Lightning Round

Lightning Morning News: Isaac Howard officially a finalist for Hobey Baker Award

By Justin G. | Apr 4th 2025 | 6 min read |

For the first time in their organization’s history, the Tampa Bay Lightning have a prospect named as a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award. On Th...

Lightning Evening News: He's a (first) Star Man

By Justin G. | Mar 31st 2025 | 4 min read |

Everyone’s favorite mercurial superstar, Nikita Kucherov, was named the first star of NHL for the week ending March 30th. Reunited with his runn...

Lightning Morning News: John Tortorella does John Tortorella things

By Justin G. | Mar 28th 2025 | 5 min read |

Look. Anyone who thought John Tortorella was going to make it to the end of his contract in Philadelphia was betting against history. The blunt, somet...

Lightning Evening News: An old friend calls it a career (reportedly)

By Justin G. | Mar 26th 2025 | 6 min read |

We’re still catching up from our little excursion into the woods (Congaree National Park is an excellent getaway if you’re ever in the Sou...

Lightning Morning News: NHL 'reimagining' All-Star game

By Justin G. | Mar 20th 2025 | 3 min read |

In our opinion, they should ‘reimagine’ it out of existence and just give the players a break, but money must be made on merchandise, so i...

Lightning Morning News: Tampa Bay on the verge of tying team history

By Justin G. | Mar 18th 2025 | 4 min read |

When Nikita Kucherov glided down the ice and snapped a shot past Ivan Fedotov last night, he recorded his 29th goal of the season. When he scores his ...

Lightning Morning News: Ike Howard with another big goal

By Justin G. | Mar 17th 2025 | 5 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning don’t have many high-end prospects in their system, but one of them keeps adding big goals to his resume. Over the weeke...

Lightning Morning News: Is there an 84-game schedule in the future?

By Justin G. | Mar 14th 2025 | 4 min read |

Pierre LeBrun kicked off his latest column for The Athletic talking about next year’s schedule. It sounds like the league and the NHLPA are work...

Lightning Morning News: Checking in on unsigned prospect Ethan Hay

By Justin G. | Mar 13th 2025 | 5 min read |

Back in January, the Kingston Frontenacs made a couple of huge deals with the Saginaw Spirit. In the end Kingston received three players for two playe...

Lightning Morning News: A rival gets hit with a long suspension

By Justin G. | Mar 11th 2025 | 4 min read |

The Florida Panthers finish their season on April 15th against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Based on the way the standings look, that game could carry som...