Category: Sweater Numbers

The Sweater Series (or Notable Numbers): "Gone Fishing"

By John Fontana | Jun 28th 2014 | 1 min read |

We’ve gone 27 numbers into the Sweater Series at Raw Charge, which is basically writing mini biographies on certain players who have worn specif...

The Sweater Series (or Notable Numbers): #27 Tim Taylor

By Clark Brooks | Jun 27th 2014 | 3 min read |

The expectation is that in the very near future, Jonathan Drouin will join the Lightning and instantly be associated with #27 the way Steven Stamkos i...

The Sweater Series (or Notable Numbers) #26: Martin St. Louis

By David Baldwin | Jun 27th 2014 | 3 min read |

I would like to preface this piece by saying that I am not here to defend the manner in which Martin St. Louis left Tampa Bay or some of the things he...

The Sweater Series (or Notable Numbers): #25 Dave Andreychuk

By Clark Brooks | Jun 26th 2014 | 4 min read |

The Lightning have yet to honor any former player by retiring a number, however they have immortalized one player in the form of a larger-than-life br...

The Sweater Series #24: Jason Wiemer

By Nolan Whyte | Jun 25th 2014 | 3 min read |

Prior to the 1994 NHL Entry Draft in Hartford, Connecticut, The Hockey News ran an article in their draft preview looking at power forwards. It high-l...

The Sweater Series (or Notable Numbers): #23 Petr Svoboda

By Clark Brooks | Jun 24th 2014 | 3 min read |

Good defensemen are hard to find. Even fans of teams that have very good ones feel like they don’t have enough. With the Lightning frequently se...

The Sweater Series (or Notable Numbers): #22 Dino Ciccarelli

By Clark Brooks | Jun 23rd 2014 | 3 min read |

All right, I know a significant chunk of you might have expected another guy to occupy this space and are fairly annoyed that he’s not here. Lis...

The Sweater Series (or Notable Numbers) #21: Cory Sarich

By John Fontana | Jun 22nd 2014 | 3 min read |

A total of 13 players have worn the number 21 with the Tampa Bay Lightning, and while a lot of the names are familiar to long time Bolts fans (and one...

The Sweater Series: #20 Vaclav "Vinny" Prospal

By Clark Brooks | Jun 21st 2014 | 4 min read |

We’re up to number 20 in our Lightning jersey number count-up, which would indicate that we’re about a fifth of the way finished. But with...

The Sweater Series #19: The Awesome Brian Bradley

By Nolan Whyte | Jun 20th 2014 | 5 min read |

We’ve mentioned several times in these little write-ups that The Sweater Series is not a referendum on who is the “best” player to h...