Tag: 2025 First Round Playoffs

The 2025 NHL Post-season Post Postmortem

By Justin G. | May 2nd 2025 | 6 min read |

This isn’t going to be a long, in-depth post. Quite frankly, it doesn’t need to be. In the end, the undoing of the 2024-25 Tampa Bay Light...

Panthers at Lightning Game 5 Preview: Time to write a new story in this series

By Justin G. | Apr 30th 2025 | 7 min read |

Game Five: Florida Panthers at Tampa Bay Lightning (Florida leads 3-1) Time: 7:30 PM EST Location: Amalie Arena, Tampa TV/Stream/Radio: FDSNSUN, Scrip...

Brandon Hagel to miss Game 5, Aaron Ekblad suspended two games

By Justin G. | Apr 29th 2025 | 4 min read |

Early in the day at the Tampa Bay Lightning off-day media session, head coach Jon Cooper was asked about the status of forward Brandon Hagel. He didn&...

Lightning at Panthers Game 4 Preview: The series slogs on

By Justin G. | Apr 28th 2025 | 6 min read |

Game Three: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers (Florida leads the series 2-1) Time: 7:00 PM EST Location: Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise TV/Stream/R...

Lightning at Panthers Game 3 Preview: Just find a way to win

By Justin G. | Apr 26th 2025 | 7 min read |

Game Three: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers (Florida leads series 2-0) Time: 1:00 PM EST Location: Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise TV/Stream/Radio...

Lightning build chances, but no goals as they are shutout in Game 2, 2-0

By Justin G. | Apr 24th 2025 | 6 min read |

A much more physical Tampa Bay Lightning played vastly better than they did in Game 1, but couldn’t find the back of the net as they dropped Gam...

Panthers at Lightning Game 2 Preview: Adapt or start booking tee times

By Justin G. | Apr 24th 2025 | 7 min read |

Game Two: Florida Panthers at Tampa Bay Lightning (Florida leads series 1-0) Time: 6:30 PM EST Location: Amalie Arena, Tampa TV/Stream/Radio: FDSNSUN,...

Anthony Cirelli's status for Game 2 unknown at this point

By Justin G. | Apr 23rd 2025 | 3 min read |

With Oliver Bjorkstrand already missing their first-round series, the last thing the Tampa Bay Lightning needed was to lose another key forward. Unfor...

Three Questions following the Lightning's Game 1 loss

By Justin G. | Apr 23rd 2025 | 6 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning lost Game 1 to the Florida Panthers, 6-2. This was not the case of a close game blown open by empty-net goals at the end. Flor...

Lightning lose Game 1, 6-2

By Justin G. | Apr 23rd 2025 | 5 min read |

Matthew Tkachuck returned to action for the Florida Panthers and provided an instant offensive spark as he scored twice, with both goals coming on the...