Category: National Hockey League Entry Draft

Reflections on past Tampa Bay Lightning draft classes part 4 -- 1999-2001

By John Fontana | Feb 16th 2019 | 4 min read |

Palace Sports and Entertainment’s era of ownership ultimately turned fortunes around for the Bolts at the NHL level. It was all part of a five y...

Reflections on past Tampa Bay Lightning draft classes part 3 -- 1998

By John Fontana | Feb 16th 2019 | 4 min read |

In what would be Phil Esposito’s final draft as GM of the Lightning, he didn’t just hit pay dirt with a superstar franchise player as the ...

Reflections on past Lightning draft classes Part 1 -- 1992

By John Fontana | Feb 16th 2019 | 5 min read |

When you look back at draft classes through the Tampa Bay Lightning‘s history, spanning from 1992 onward, most years have a singular standout na...

Reflections on past Tampa Bay Lightning draft classes part 5 -- 2002

By John Fontana | Feb 16th 2019 | 3 min read |

Jay Feaster took over as Lightning GM in the spring of 2002 after Rick Dudley resigned (brought about because of Dudley’s conflict with manageme...

Reflections on past Tampa Bay Lightning draft classes part 6 -- 2003-2006

By John Fontana | Feb 15th 2019 | 5 min read |

For the fans that endured the lows of the Tampa Bay Lightning from 1997 until 2002, “tomorrow” finally arrived in 2003 when the Bolts fina...

Tampa Bay Lightning 2018 NHL draft profiles: Seventh round pick Radim Salda

By loserpoints | Jun 30th 2018 | 4 min read |

The Lightning used their second-to-last pick in this year’s draft on Radim Salda, a left-handed defender from the Saint John Sea Dogs of the Quebec ...

Tampa Bay Lightning draft profiles: Cole Koepke

By loserpoints | Jun 30th 2018 | 5 min read |

In the sixth round of last weekend’s draft, the Lightning continued their trend of drafting overage players either headed to or already playing in t...

Tampa Bay Lightning 2018 Draft Profile: Gabriel Fortier

By Alexandra Ackerman | Jun 27th 2018 | 6 min read |

With the 2018 NHL Draft in the review mirror, it’s time to get to know the newest draftees of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Yesterday, Geo gave us a thor...

Tampa Bay Lightning draft recap

By loserpoints | Jun 23rd 2018 | 7 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning have seven picks in rounds two through seven on the second day of the 2018 NHL draft. This is a live blog to bring you those p...

Four players for the Lightning to consider at pick 59 and new consolidated NHL draft rankings

By loserpoints | Jun 20th 2018 | 9 min read |

Introduction The 2018 NHL Draft starts this Friday, June 22nd in Dallas at 7:30 PM ET. The first round is always fun, but this year will be less fun t...