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Look at us, we made it: New York Rangers at Tampa Bay Lightning Game Preview
Game Eighty-Two : New York Rangers (33-39-9) at Tampa Bay Lightning (50-25-6) Time: 7:00 PM EST Location: Benchmark International Arena, Tampa – The site of Wayne Gretzky’s final All-Star Game (he had a goal and an assist). Question – who was the Lightning’s All-Star that season? TV/Stream/Radio: The Spot, MSG, TVAS2, ESPN+, 102.5 FM, Lightning App Odds: Lightning -115 Know the Opponents: Blue Shirt Banter Look at that. We’ve made it to the end of the season. It t...
The Panthers draft history shows the perils of drafting a mid-round quarterback
As the Carolina Panthers prepare for the 2026 NFL Draft they do so in the awkward position of not knowing if quarterback Bryce Young is their long-term answer at the most important position in sports. Young enters 2026 on the final year of his rookie contract and Carolina has already picked up his fifth-year option […]
Lightning secure home ice advantage in the first round. Is that a good thing?
With the Montreal Canadiens losing (in regulation) their final game of the regular season, the Tampa Bay Lightning have secured home ice in their first-round match-up that starts this weekend. Is that a good thing? After all, this is a team that is 1-7 at home during their last three playoff series. In case you were wondering, yes, they lost all three of those series. What’s been even more frustrating is that the Lightning had been very, very good at home during the regular season. Over t...
White Sox fall flat in Noah Schultz’s debut
It might not have been the perfect performance he hoped for, but Noah Schultz pushed through a rough first frame of his major league debut to finish his 4 1/3-inning outing strongly, despite the White Sox (6 -11) dropping the first game of the series to the Rays (9-7), 8-5. Schultz needed 33 pitches to […]
Very small ball: Rays 8 White Sox 5
The Rays took the first game of this series against the White Sox, with Shane McClanahan picking up his first win in well over a year while his teammates gathered twelve hits and six walks. Every player was on base at least once. This game received national attention because of the White Sox starter: Noah […]
Game Thread: A lefty making his MLB debut?
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'Sticker Shock' Coming for UFA Darren Raddysh's New Contract
The NHL's unrestricted free agent market this summer will be.. well, pretty restricted . With so many of the big-name extensions being signed by notable pending UFAs already this season, that leaves only a couple of high-end names to have the market all to themselves. At forward, it's Alex Tuch of the Buffalo Sabres. And on defense, it's all coming up Darren Raddysh. The Tampa Bay Lightning 's surprising breakout 30-year-old had a year that no one would have dreamed of coming into the se...
Rays push for quick financial agreement with Hillsborough, Tampa
The current Rays owners are eager — very eager — to get the funding for the proposed stadium squared away, and have given the Tampa and Hillsborough County a June deadline to approve funding, with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) released late Friday. Just to recap, the Rays are asking the two governments to fund […]
Lightning set to face Montreal Canadiens in Round One of the 2026 NHL Playoffs
It took 81 games to find an opponent this year, but after the Tampa Bay Lightning’s overtime win against the Detroit Red Wings, and the Buffalo Sabres’ regulation win against the Chicago Blackhawks, the playoff match-ups are set. Well, at least for the Lightning. Since Buffalo won in regulation, they hold the tiebreaker over Tampa Bay and clinched the Atlantic Division. So that means the Lightning and Montreal Canadiens will face-off in the playoffs for the fifth time in history. While th...
Lightning beat Detroit in overtime, 4-3
It’s the next to last game of the season and that can mean only one thing – haiku recap time. Like moss clings to stone So do hopes for a title Bolts in overtime win The Goals David Perron [13] (JT Compher, Ben Chiarot) 1-0 Red Wings Conor Geekie [1] (Oliver Bjorkstrand) 1-1 Erik Cernak [3] (Ryan McDonagh, Zemgus Girgensons) 2-1 Lightning Jake Guentzel [38] (Nikita Kucherov, J.J. Moser) 3-1 Lightning Marco Ka...
The Yankees don’t do themselves any favors
This is not solely a piece to bash Jazz Chisholm Jr. I think he’s a very good player, and I am currently watching him relay signs while standing on second base, both to help his own hitters and mess with Rays’ starter Drew Rassmussen. I think he brings an energy to the club that they’ve […]
Tampa Bay Rays 2026 Minor League Roundup: Week 1
This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the 1st a week of full minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), newcomer Austin Overn the top hitter in the Rays system; the Rays […]
Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, April 13 edition
The 2026 MLB season has had a very weird start. Many good teams — including the Cubs — are off to mediocre starts. In fact, other than the 11-4 Dodgers, the other 29 teams all have records between 10-6 and 6-10 entering Monday’s action: 10-6: Braves, Padres9-6: Pirates9-7: Guardians, Twins, Reds, Diamondbacks8-7: Orioles, Yankees, Rays, […]
Game Day Updates: Red Wings at Lightning
Well, this sucks. The margins in this league are tight. I wrote a post over the weekend fantasizing over the idea that the Islanders could ride their late-season New Coach Bump to a win over Ottawa. Had that happened, and had the Red Wings held on to one of their many one-goal leads over the Devils, we’d be in business right now. Ottawa lost to New Jersey last night, so had the hockey gods felt differently, we could be looking at a two-point gap, with a game in a hand, and some control ov...
The Penultimate Contest: Red Wings at Lightning
Game Eighty-One: Detroit Red Wings (41-30-9) at Tampa Bay Lightning (49-25-6) Time: 7:00 PM EST Location: Benchmark International Arena, Tampa – Where the arena DJ once played “Don’t Stop Believing” after the Lightning beat the Red Wings in a playoff game and some folks got really mad about it. TV/Stream/Radio: The Spot, FDSNDET, ESPN+, 102.5 FM, Lightning App Odds: Lightning -200 Know the Opponents: Winging it in Motown For the first time in what seems like forev...
Orioles news: The Orioles are in first place
Good morning, Camden Chatters. Your eyes do not deceive you. Take a gander at the AL East standings and you’ll find the Orioles atop the division (well, along with the Yankees and Rays in a three-way tie). The O’s, who a week ago at this time were practically left for dead, are back above .500 […]
Yankees hit same familiar pitfalls, Rays complete the sweep
Over the last several seasons, the Yankees have attempted a teambuilding approach that is less reliant on pure power and more resilient against the kinds of teams which have given them fits: speedy teams that put the ball in play and cover ground in the field. A team like, say, the Tampa Bay Rays. And […]
Bullpen turns strong Drew Rasmussen start into nailbiter: Rays 5, Yankees 4
I know this has been said a dozen different ways by people much more eloquent than myself, but my goodness is it ever nice to see games played at the Trop again. Haters gonna hate, but that place is special, and it’s so nice to see games under the dome again. The Rays were wrapping […]
Today In NHL History - Steven Stamkos' Own Goal
On March 29th in 2014, Tampa Bay Lightning sniper Steven Stamkos fired a pass past defenseman Michael Kostka which deflected off the boards and ended up in his own empty net during a delayed penalty, putting the Buffalo Sabres up 3-2 midway through the third period. Stamkos' own goal was credited to Cory Conacher, the Sabres skater whistled for hooking prompting Ben Bishop to abandon
Game Thread: Sunday morning baseball
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New York Yankees @ Tampa Bay Rays: Cam Schlittler vs. Drew Rasmussen
The first two games the Yankees played at Tropicana Field since the park’s reopening have proceeded quite…troppily, if you will. New York’s anemic offense was at least able to find a pair of go-ahead hits from José Caballero in yesterday’s 10-inning defeat, though the bullpen wasted little time coughing up the meager advantage to the […]
Yankees Rivalry Roundup: Mariners stage five-run rally to beat Astros
Saturday’s game against the Rays was not pretty viewing for Yankees fans. The Yankees held two separate late leads against Tampa Bay, but couldn’t hold onto either. In the 10th inning, the Rays took advantage of the auto-runner and bunted the Yankees to death, eventually scoring twice in the frame to overtake the Yankees. With […]
Aranda Hit The Clutch, Simpson Hit The Gas: Rays 5, Yankees 4
This game started like a chess match and ended like a street race, and once the Rays hit the gas, the Yankees could not catch a break. For six innings, this one had all the tension of a real pitchers’ duel. Nick Martinez was not overpowering, but he was calm throughout, which against the Yankees […]
Yankees suffer brutal extra-innings loss to Rays at the Trop
The bottom of the Yankees lineup has caught a lot of flack for being automatic outs in the early going this season. Naturally, on a night when the 6-9 hitters drove in four runs and Max Fried threw eight innings of three-run ball … the Yankees still lost. Why, you ask? Take away José Caballero’s […]
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