With the NHL roughly two weeks into its schedule, lets take a five teams that are off to a surprising start in 2010-11. Toronto Maple Leafs (4-0-1; 9 pts) – Lead by Phil Kessel and Jean-Sebastien Giguere, the Maple Leafs…
Key Offseason Losses: Antero Nittymaki, Alex Tanguy, Ryan Craig, Kurtis Foster Key Offseason Additions: Dan Ellis, Simon Gagne, Dominic Moore, Pavel Kubina, Randy Jones, Brett Clark Last Season Ranking: 12th in East Offense: Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis have…
Steve Yzerman has accepted the job of General Manager with the Tampa Bay Lightning organization. The news will be made official with a press conference which will take place later this afternoon. Yzerman takes over the role from Brian Lawton,…
The Tampa Bay Lightning, after missing the playoffs for the third straight year, has decided to part ways with head coach Rick Tocchet and general manager Brian Lawton. Lightning Owner Jeff Vinik said in a statement, “Our hockey operations department…
Steve Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning has been on an absolute tear this season, only his second in the NHL. After a good rookie campaign, which could have been better if it weren’t for Barry Melrose, the young Stamkos…
As the first-overall pick of the 2008 NHL Draft, Tampa Bay center Steven Stamkos had lofty expectations from Lightning fans. And so far, he has lived up to them, and still has nowhere to go but up. In his rookie season,…
Marian Hossa with the magic stick against Tampa Bay. He catches the puck, tosses it down and takes a swing. Hossa actually hit the puck out of mid air and sent it flying into the goal. Just an absolutely sick…
There may be no other team in the NHL more eager to start the current season than the Tampa Bay Lightning. Instability in ownership and coaching dogged this team for a great deal of the season while relentless trade rumors…
It looks as if Vaclav Prospal has just become one of the elite members of this summer’s free agency pool… The Tampa Bay Tribune reported earlier today that Prospal was infromed that his contract will be bought out by the…