Category: NHL Expansion

Speculating about Tampa Bay Lightning expansion trades

By Justin G. | Jun 21st 2017 | 9 min read |

There’s been thought for as long as people have been thinking about the expansion draft that the Tampa Bay Lightning might make a deal with the Vega...

Tampa Bay Lightning announce expansion draft protection list

By Justin G. | Jun 18th 2017 | 4 min read |

Along with the rest of the NHL, the Tampa Bay Lightning has announced the team’s protection list for the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft. The following pla...

Tampa Bay Lightning trade Jonathan Drouin for Mikhail Sergachev

By Justin G. | Jun 16th 2017 | 5 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning and general manager Steve Yzerman have announced that they have traded Jonathan Drouin and a conditional 2018 sixth-round draf...

Expanding realignment talk; Could Tampa Bay work in the Western Conference?

By John Fontana | Jul 29th 2015 | 6 min read |

In the past, I’ve said that the East vs. West conference split in the NHL is not the best of ideas. That opinion and the realignment concept in ...

NHL Expansion coverage

By John Fontana | Aug 27th 2014 | 1 min read |

It has been a long running rumor that the National Hockey League will increase its ranks of member franchises from 30. Those rumors and innuendos have...