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Lightning Strikes: McDonagh, Cooper, Gretzky & More

Welcome to this edition of Lightning Strikes, a series featuring quotes and comments from players, coaches, management, journalists, and fans alike concerning the Tampa Bay Lightning. This ongoing column aims to capture a slice of the existing outlook, attitudes, an...

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Lightning More Conservative on Zone Entries to Start Season

Advanced analytics and statistics in hockey have rapidly evolved over the past decade. Websites like EvolvingHockey have introduced player evaluation models such as WAR (Wins Above Replacement). Other sites like Hockey...

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Lightning’s New Possession-Dominant Line One of the League’s Best So Far This Season

The Tampa Bay Lightning were a wild-card team heading into this season. With a lot of moving pieces over the summer, including the departure of captain Steven Stamkos, there was a culture shift in the organization...

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3 Final Tampa Bay Lightning Questions for the 2024-25 Season

The 2024 offseason wasn't short of action for the Tampa Bay Lightning front office and fan base. There was a culture shift in the team this summer, and the...

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Lightning Can Trust Brandon Hagel to Drive His Own Line This Season

The Tampa Bay Lightning's top-six forward core is shaping to be one of the best heading into the 2024-25 season. Despite losing Steven Stamkos, the Lightning found a better option in Jake Guentzel on...

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Lightning Players Participating in the 2024 IIHF World Championship

The 2024 IIHF World Championship is set to begin in Czechia on Friday when sixteen countries will battle for the men's world championship crown. The competition is not without its Tampa Bay Lightning representation....

#TampaBayLightning #BrandonHagel #MikeyEyssimont #NickPaul #VictorHedman
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Multiple Lightning Players Reach Milestones in Win Over Islanders

The Tampa Bay Lightning continued their post-trade deadline roll by defeating the New York Islanders 4-1. While the team as a whole is on a tear, the win is also highlighted by multiple individual milestones.

Some are simply career highs...

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Lightning’s 2022 Trades Are Shaping the Team’s Future

There have been plenty of trades in recent memory that have had an impact on the Tampa Bay Lightning, both good and bad. The 2018 trade to get JT Miller and Ryan McDonagh from the New York Rangers has aged particularly well. On the flip...

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Evaluating the Lightning Trade for Brandon Hagel 2 Years Later

It's been nearly two years since the Tampa Bay Lightning acquired Brandon Hagel in a blockbuster trade with the Chicago Blackhawks.

The price for Hagel, along with two fourth-round ...

#ChicagoBlackhawks #NHLTradeAnalysis #TampaBayLightning #BorisKatchouk #BrandonHagel #LucasEdmonds #TaylorRaddysh
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Lightning’s Up & Down Play Since the All-Star Break

Heading into the All-Star Break, things looked good for the Tampa Bay Lightning. They had won three straight games (all by a score of 6-3), were 8-1 in their last nine, and were steadily climbing in the Atlantic Division standings. Then, they had ...

#TampaBayLightning #AndreiVasilevskiy #BrandonHagel #StevenStamkos
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3 Key Players For Lightning to Secure a Playoff Berth

It goes without saying that the Tampa Bay Lightning will need to see continued production from their key players in order to qualify and then make a deep run in the 2024 NHL Playoffs. Even after Saturday night's (Feb. 17) 9-2 loss to the...

#TampaBayLightning #2024StanleyCupPlayoffs #BrandonHagel #ErikCernak #LukeGlendening
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Lightning Show Resiliency in Recent Wins

After a rough patch that saw the Tampa Bay Lightning lose three straight games, with the latter two being shutouts, they have rallied and won three straight. Perhaps what is most impressive is that the Lightning were trailing at some point in each...

#TampaBayLightning #BrandonHagel #MikhailSergachev #NikitaKucherov #TannerJeannot
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Blackhawks vs. Lightning: Hagel, Raddysh, Predictions & More

The Chicago Blackhawks and the Tampa Bay Lightning are set to meet for two matchups in the span of one week, the first of which is this Thursday (Oct. 9). Now just in the beginning stages of th...

#ChicagoBlackhawks #TampaBayLightning #BrandonHagel #BraydenPoint #ConnorBedard #TaylorRaddysh
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Lightning’s 3 Best Contracts for the 2023-24 NHL Season

Well, it's that time of the year again. With September on the calendar, we are just a few weeks away from the start of training camp, which means we can take a long look at the Tampa Bay Lightning's roster for THW's yearly best and wor...

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Blackhawks News & Rumors: Prospects, Bedard, Hagel & More

Summer is rolling right along as we head into the last week of August. Before we know it, there will be training camps and preseason hockey games for the Chicago Blackhawks and the rest of the NHL. The time is u...

#ChicagoBlackhawks #NewsAndRumors #BrandonHagel #ConnorBedard #JasonDickinson #ReeseJohnson
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Lightning Hagel Signing Allows Team to Still Focus on the Future

The Tampa Bay Lightning are not going to rest on their laurels. As the team continues to deal with a tight salary cap, they have not only developed a roster to compete for another Stanley Cup in 2023-24, but they are also making sure that the Lightning will be a contend...

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NHL Rumors: Lightning, Canadiens, Bruins, Maple Leafs, Ducks

In today's NHL rumors rundown, the Tampa Bay Lightning have locked up Brandon Hagel to an eight-year contract extension. Meanwhile, Montreal Canadiens GM Kent Hughes has discussed the diff...

#AnaheimDucks #MontrealCanadiens #NHLRumors #TampaBayLightning #TorontoMapleLeafs #BrandonHagel #CaseyDeSmith #StevenStamkos #WilliamNylander
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Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson’s 3 Best Trades So Far

If there's one thing we've learned about Chicago Blackhawks general manager (GM) Kyle Davidson, it's that he isn't afraid to be bold. Davidson spent four months as interim GM before taking over full-time in March 2022 and has made a full 180 from t...

#ChicagoBlackhawks #BrandonHagel #JasonDickinson #NickFoligno #TaylorHall
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Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: BriseBois, Vasilevskiy & More

Welcome to this edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stock Up and Stock Down, with the final edition of the 2022-23 season focusing on looking back on the season and what lies ahead.

It has been a while since ...

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NHL Should Not Make Officials Available to the Media

Recently, my The Hockey Writer's colleague Mark Scheig wrote a column detailing why the NHL should start making officials available to the media after the games, much in how it is done for players and coaches. The idea is that when calls are made that affect the game, th...

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