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Victor Hedman, Ryan McDonagh and the Norris Trophy

Cale Makar won the Norris Trophy. That’s not much of a surprise as the young Colorado Avalanche defenseman scored 30 goals and put up 92 points. That is as impressive of a season for a blueliner that we’ve seen in a long time. It’s also further proof that the Norris Trophy might officially be awarded to the “defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-around ability in…

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Several Tampa Bay Lightning players named to Olympic rosters

As the sun blazes down in the midst of another hot summer, it’s hard to wrap a sunburned head around the fact that the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy are roughly eight months away. That means the national teams have to start figuring out who is going to play hockey for them. With the NHL returning to the Olympics for the first time since 2014, that means several Tampa Bay Lightning players will be…

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The 2024-25 NHL season ends with the Florida Panthers crowned as Stanley Cup Champions, again

Whelp. The Stanley Cup is staying in Florida. That’s nice. The Florida Panthers went from huge question mark heading into the post-season to an absolute juggernaut as they won their second consecutive Stanley Cup with a 5-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. And with that victory, the season comes to an end. With several of their players injured at the end of…

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Catching up on the post-Stanley Cup roster action

The 2024-25 season is done. That means the sprint to the build 2025-26 rosters has begun for general managers around the NHL. While some teams, like the Tampa Bay Lightning, have already made some quiet moves, expect the action to start heating up as the league calendar plows on towards the NHL draft, which starts just over a week from today on June 27th. The draft leads into free agency on July…

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Gabriel Dumont retires from hockey

Over the last decade, two players were a constant presence in the Syracuse Crunch line-up. Daniel Walcott, who joined the team in the 2015-16 season, and Gabriel Dumont, who has been with the Crunch on three different stints since 2016. On Thursday, Dumont, the team captain, announced his retirement from hockey. He hangs up the blue and white (and occasional orange) having skated in 290…

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Lightning were reportedly in talks with veteran free agent

A couple of days ago, veteran center Jonathan Toews reportedly agreed to a bonus-laden contract with the Winnipeg Jets. After a two-year absence from the sport, Toews is returning to the NHL with the defending President’s Trophy winners. The 37-year-old had drawn interest from several teams in the league and, according to insider Elliotte Friedman, the Tampa Bay Lightning were one of them. So…

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Digging into a potential JJ Peterka acquisition for the Lightning

In our last post about the upcoming free agency frenzy, we mentioned the probability of Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois looking to add some low-cost, veteran centers to help balance out the bottom-six forward corps. In other words, some less-than-sexy moves that don’t move the needle much, but could help out with the depth. Of course, a lot of folks thought that would be his…

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Lightning release preseason schedule

Get those markers and calendars ready (ours is a National Park one), we have hockey to schedule for next season. The first signs of the Tampa Bay Lightning 2025-26 season have started to trickle out as the team with the release of the preseason schedule. As expected, the Bolts (well, mostly their younger players, and the ones on the roster bubble) will be taking on the usual suspects starting on…

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The Lightning hit the 2025 NHL Draft with seven picks

For all of the reporters on the NHL beat, visions of summer cottages on the lake are starting to come into focus. The press box meals, slow elevators, and locker room chats are well behind them, and it’s almost time to shift things down into vacation mode. Before everyone gets there, a busy week of action kicks off tomorrow as the first round of the 2025 NHL Draft gets underway. Rounds 2-7 consume…

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Tampa Bay Lightning sign two players to two-way contracts

Let’s finish up day one of free agency with a couple of earlier signings for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Julien BriseBois continued to add to the organizational depth by signing forward Nicholas Abruzzese (one year) and defenseman Simon Lundmark (two years) to two-way deals. Syracuse Crunch fans are probably familiar with Abruzzese, who has been skating with the Toronto Marlies for the past…

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Lightning add intriguing prospect on three-year deal

[Update 11:20 AM] – The Lightning have announced the deal. Just because the rest of the world is sleeping doesn’t mean Julien BriseBois isn’t working. It appears the Tampa Bay Lightning general manager kept the free agent frenzy going well into the dark hours of the night as a report emerged at roughly 1:00 am that the Bolts had signed forward Jakob Pelletier to a three-year contract.

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Tampa Bay Lightning sign Pontus Holmberg to two-year contract

After spending most of the day filling in holes on the Syracuse Crunch’s roster it appears the Tampa Bay Lightning have addressed one of their own roster needs as they signed forward Pontus Holmberg to a two-year contract. The 26-year-old forward has agreed to a deal that pays him $1.55 million a year and will slot into a bottom-six role. After splitting time between the Toronto Marlies…

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Tampa Bay Lightning sign Boris Katchouk to one-year contract

Boris Katchouk is back in the Tampa Bay Lightning system. After heading to Chicago as part of the Brandon Hagel deal, the Lightning’s 2016 second-round pick is finally home again. The Lightning announced that they signed the 27-year-old forward to a one-year, two-way contract on Tuesday. The left-shot forward never really found a role on the rebuilding Blackhawks squad and was claimed…

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Lets talk about Ike

We made it through the draft with no trade. Now, free agency is a little less frenzied. As of the composition of this post, the draft rights to Isaac Howard still belong to the Tampa Bay Lightning. So, if nothing has changed, why are we both wasting our time with a post about it? Well, because it’s July, and the fun from free agency is going to wear off pretty quickly. Oh…

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Lightning keep two more players in the organization

The Tampa Bay Lightning continued their trend of keeping players in the organization instead of pulling from the free agent market. On Tuesday afternoon they officially announced that they had signed Tristan Allard to an entry-level contract. They followed that up with news that they had signed goaltender Ryan Fanti. The Fanti signing was first reported in June, but the Lightning made it official…

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Tampa Bay Lightning re-sign Gage Goncalves to two-year contract

The Portuguese Pistol is staying in Tampa! The Tampa Bay Lightning have announced that they have re-signed the Gage Goncalves to a two-year contract with an average annual value of $1.2 million. He will remain a restricted free agent at the end of the deal. The 24-year-old forward appeared in 60 regular season games for the Lightning last year and posted 8 goals while adding 12 assists.

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Roster Breakdown: A first look at the 2025-26 Lightning roster

Welcome to what we expect to be a reoccurring series as the 2025-26 NHL season rolls on throughout the year. With free agency settling down to roster-filling roles, and the Tampa Bay Lightning seemingly set at this point, we take our first shot at what the Opening Night roster might look like. The first thing we notice is that it bears a striking resemblance to the line-up…

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Previewing the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2025 Free Agency

We’ve reached Hockey Christmas. Even with a somewhat lackluster free-agency class, expect there to be millions of dollars in contracts handed out starting at 12:01 PM. Yes, some of the fun has been taken out of the day as several big-name unrestricted free agents re-signed with their current teams. It happens every year as general managers choose to overpay for a player they know rather than…

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Tyler Johnson hangs up the skates

Steven Stamkos might be the face of the franchise for a generation of Tampa Bay Lightning fans, but no one embodied the underdog nature of the most recent string of success for our non-traditional hockey market than Tyler Johnson. On Monday, the former Bolt forward called it a career. Johnson signed with the organization as a free agent back in 2011 after putting up 282 points (128…

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Lightning acquire Sam O’Reilly for the rights to Isaac Howard

Well, we’re going to have a new Number 2 in our Top 25 Under 25 this year. The Tampa Bay Lightning traded the rights to Isaac Howard to the Edmonton Oilers for forward Sam O’Reilly. Thus ends the saga of what to do with Ike. O’Reilly, 19, was the Oilers first round pick (32nd overall) in the 2024 NHL draft. He is a right-shot center that stands 6’1″, and weighs 190 lbs. Last season…

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