Lightning Effect: Skilled NHL teams add grit to go for Cup
4 years, 2 months ago

Lightning Effect: Skilled NHL teams add grit to go for Cup

The Independent  

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We’ve had a good team the last couple years, but for whatever reasons, the fits, the chemistries, how we played just wasn’t good enough on a consistent basis,” Nashville general manager David Poile said Thursday. “I still think we’ve got a pretty highly skilled team with a top four defensemen and I think we’ve got five or six really high-skilled forwards, but it’s a team game and it takes all different types of guys to be successful.” For the Predators, it meant adding 2012 Cup-winning forward Brad Richardson and 6-foot-1, 207-pound defenseman Mark Borowiecki. “You need those guys,” said Kevin Shattenkirk, another newcomer on Tampa Bay's championship team who left to sign with Anaheim. More than that I think it’s the toughness and character by which those guys operate every day.” Much like Toronto, which scored the third-most goals in the NHL last season and allowed the sixth most, that's the goal for Florida with Hornqvist, Gudas and Wennberg.

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Lightning may be running out of gas vs fresher Avalanche
2 years, 6 months ago

Lightning may be running out of gas vs fresher Avalanche

Associated Press  

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2021-22 NHL power rankings: Can anyone catch the Tampa Bay Lightning?
3 years, 2 months ago

2021-22 NHL power rankings: Can anyone catch the Tampa Bay Lightning?

LA Times  

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Analysis: Lightning get taste of Canadiens’ pain in Game 5
3 years, 5 months ago

Analysis: Lightning get taste of Canadiens’ pain in Game 5

Associated Press  

Now the Tampa Bay Lightning know what the Montreal Canadiens felt like the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final. A little like Game 2, when the Lightning were on their heels and yet scored opportunistic goals, the Canadiens were outshot 11-1 — and didn’t have one for the first eight-plus minutes — before going up 1-0 to set …

Bubble crankiness ratchets up the nasty for Stars-Lightning
4 years, 3 months ago

Bubble crankiness ratchets up the nasty for Stars-Lightning

Associated Press  

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