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DALLAS — The Dallas Stars are among four teams with reported interest in unrestricted free agent winger Patrik Laine, Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen reported Tuesday. Garrioch listed the Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, Dallas, and the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Ottawa Senators discussed signing Laine, according to Garrioch, who wrote that a deal […]
A right-shot defenseman that has size and is mobile? In the Tampa Bay Lightning system, it might not be long until Tomas Kralovic is making his NHL debut. Name Tomas Kralovic Position Defenseman (Right Shot) Age (as of October 1, 2026) 21 Height/Weight 6’3″, 203 lbs. Expected 2026-27 Team Syracuse Crunch Draft – Year, Round 2026, 3rd (90th) Previous Rankings Not Applicable JustinG. Ranking 9 Final Rank 13 Stats: Our Thoughts: Tomas Kralovic’s summer has been a bit...
Patrik Laine continues to train in south Florida for the upcoming NHL season, and with training camps kicking off in the very near future, many around the league are surprised he's yet to sign a new contract. From the sounds of it, we won't be waiting much longer. Bruce Garrioch: Re Patrik Laine: There is reportedly interest from the Maple Leafs, Panthers, Stars and Lightning - Ottawa Citizen (9/1) According to Senators beat reporter Bruce Garrioch, the Senators are among five teams interested...
We keep getting closer, and closer, and closer to the start of hockey season. As things crawl nearer, little drops of information keep getting released. First it was the opening night game. Then it was the entire schedule. Now, the Tampa Bay Lightning have released their promotional schedule. All of the theme and giveaway nights are now up on the schedule, so go book your seats accordingly! Starting off we have their theme nights, mostly centered around holidays. Like a few other teams, t...
Could Joona Saarelainen make the leap from Europe to North America this season? A strong 2025-26 has him on that path. Name Joona Saarelainen Position Forward Age (as of October 1, 2026) 20 Height/Weight 5’9″, 187 lbs. Expected 2026-27 Team KalPa (Liiga) Draft – Year, Round 2024, 5th Round (149) Previous Rankings 19th ( 2024 ), 18th ( 2025 ) JustinG. Ranking 7 Final Rank 14 Stats: Our Thoughts: Unlike his fellow countryman, Benjamin Rautelainen, Joona Saarelainen ...
Allow myself to introduce… myself. Yeah, I know – I just used a 20-year-old Austin Powers reference on a hockey blog. If you’re walking into a new locker room, you might as well do it with a little swagger and some self awareness. I’ve been a diehard hockey fan since I was a kid in western Pennsylvania. I watched Mario Lemieux come back from the dead twice. I watched Jaromir Jagr break my teenage heart by taking his talents to Washington. That heartbreak eventually turned into Marc-A...
After four consecutive first round exits, this could become a make or break year for the future in Tampa Bay.
Week two of the countdown kicks off with an intriguing forward who could be in line to make his NHL debut this season. Name Lucas Mercuri Position Forward Age (as of October 1, 2026) 24 Height/Weight 6’3″, 223 lbs. Expected 2026-27 Team Syracuse Crunch Draft – Year, Round 2020 6th Round (159) by Carolina Previous Rankings Not Ranked JustinG. Ranking 18 Final Rank 15 Stats: Our Thoughts: In March of 2025 the Tampa Bay Lightning made a move that didn’t rattle a lot ...
Well over three decades into their history, the Tampa Bay Lightning have their share of contracts that have had a chance to sit and develop proper hindsight. Some aged gracefully.…
The Tampa Bay Lightning had another successful regular season last year, which saw them return to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the ninth straight season. Unfortunately, it was not a successful season for everyone involved. Defenseman Victor Hedman had a rough go of it in 2025-26. The veteran defenseman struggled with injuries throughout the year. […] The post Lightning’s Victor Hedman makes sobering admission on 2025-26 season appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Tampa Bay’s captain took a personal leave of absence in mid-March, missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
NHL.com is providing in-depth prospect analysis for each of its 32 teams from Aug. 1-Sept. 1. Today, the top five prospects for the Tampa Bay Lightning, according to NHL.com.
Building an all-time team for each NHL franchise is no easy task. With decades of star players to choose from, narrowing each roster down to just six names creates plenty of difficult decisions. Below, we’ll select one left winger, one center, one right winger, two defensemen, and one goalie for all 32 NHL teams. The […]
It could also be a special season for Crosby, Vasilevskiy, Bobrovsky, Maurice and more.
The Toronto Maple Leafs already pulled off one Raddysh reunion this summer. There's a chance they could try and complete the set. Toronto acquired defenseman Darren Raddysh from the Tampa Bay Lightning in a sign-and-trade back in June, signing him to an eight-year, $68 million contract as part of the deal. Now the Maple Leafs are being connected to his younger brother, Taylor, a winger currently on the New York Rangers. A Wish Their Father Never Got To See Darren and Taylor grew up in Ca...
The Tampa Bay Lightning aren’t going to carry three goaltenders on the roster this season. That much we can be assured of a month out from training camp. When Julien BriseBois acquired Dennis Hildeby from the Toronto Maple Leafs, he was pretty certain that the plan was for the young Swede to backup Andrei Vasilevskiy for the 2026-27 season. The fly in the jelly, the bump in the road, the Skittle in the M&M’s is the fact that Jonas Johansson is still on the roster. Speaking with the media ...
The Montreal Canadiens are clearly a team that is surging after their performance down the stretch during the regular season and in last year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. Head coach Marty St. Louis has a team that is clearly dangerous after beating both the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Buffalo Sabres in the seventh game of […] The post Canadiens’ perfect trade target amid 2026 NHL Free Agency appeared first on ClutchPoints .
These 5 NHL teams are built to make the playoffs this season after missing out a year ago.
Less than a month remains until NHL training camp, and Jakob Pelletier’s aim is to be with the Tampa Bay Lightning come late September.
Vasilevskiy won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s best goalie in 2025-26, and now EA Sports has bestowed its own top goalie title upon the two-time Stanley Cup champion.
Kucherov received a 97 out of 100 overall rating.
The original theme of this article was going to be, “Which Lightning rookie could win the Calder Trophy?” but, to be honest, the chances of that happening are about the same as Frenchy’s restaurant taking over the naming rights to Benchmark Arena. Sure, it could happen, and it would be great, but it’s probably not going to happen. The betting sharps seem to agree considering that as of the time of publication, not a single member of the Tampa Bay Lightning organization has posted odds to win t...
Connor McMichael got married to his longtime girlfriend, Lene, on Saturday night, and several Washington Capitals players, past and present, were in attendance. Dylan Strome and Martin Fehervary of the current Caps roster were at the ceremony, while John Carlson, now of the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Taylor Raddysh, now with the New York Rangers,
The projected structure of the Edmonton Oilers’ forward lineup in 2026-27 creates an interesting dilemma for 22-year-old forward Isaac Howard. Traded to the Oilers from the Tampa Bay Lightning last summer in exchange for Edmonton’s 2024 first-round pick Sam O’Reilly, Howard is the organization’s top prospect in an otherwise unremarkable pool. With Zach Hyman and…
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, the 2019-20 season was a make-or-break moment for a franchise that had become known as good enough to make deep runs in the postseason but…