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...

Lightning Round: Highlighting pioneers in hockey on MLK Day

By Hardev | Jan 20th 2020 | 7 min read |

Happy Martin Luther King Day, America! The voice of the Civil Rights movement did a lot to promote the equality and human rights for minorities. I hop...

Thoughts and observations on Tampa Bay Lightning bubble players so far in preseason

By Matthew Esteves | Sep 23rd 2019 | 8 min read |

With the Tampa Bay Lightning cutting another 13 players and waiving an additional three, the camp roster now stands at 33. There weren’t many surpri...

The Hall of Fame doesn’t define Lecavalier’s legacy

By Justin G. | Jun 29th 2019 | 7 min read |

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to write this for another few years. In that world, we would be talking about Vincent Lecavalier entering the f...

Hockey, love, and grief: Why we do this

By Alexandra Ackerman | Apr 30th 2019 | 5 min read |

I have to start out with a potential trigger warning: Those of you who know me are aware that I lost my father on April 2nd, 2019. He had a sudden hea...

Should the Tampa Bay Lightning sign Stephen Dhillon?

By el seldo | Apr 18th 2019 | 7 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning are blessed with riches in many aspects, but there’s one place that the depth isn’t safe for diving in the pro leagues: go...