Category: Opinions and Editorials

Opinion: Lightning made right call on not having fans

By Justin G. | Jan 9th 2021 | 5 min read |

Early Saturday morning, Vinik Sports Group, the company that owns the Tampa Bay Lightning and Amalie Arena, made the announcement that they would not ...

Happiness is a warm Stanley Cup hug

By Justin G. | Sep 29th 2020 | 8 min read |

It would have been so easy to close the book on the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stanley Cup window in the spring of 2019. The embarrassment of getting swe...

Tampa Bay Lightning victory is bittersweet

By Justin G. | Sep 29th 2020 | 9 min read |

Let me preface this with… yes, I am drunk. The Tampa Bay Lightning just won the Stanley Cup Championship. It’s 1:18 AM the morning after they ...

Racism and the slow uptake of the NHL

By Acha | Aug 27th 2020 | 4 min read |

I woke up the day after sports leagues began their protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake wondering how the NHL would finally approach the topi...

The untold truth behind my online name

By Lauren Kelly | May 21st 2020 | 7 min read |

I’m writing this in wake of Akim Aliu’s Players Tribune article, an article that broke my heart and brought me more shame than I’d ever felt. An...