With the many exciting contenders vying for the Stanley Cup this season, it can be easy to forget that one of them is attempting to become only the sixth-ever NHL team to win three or more consecutive championships. The Tampa Bay Lightning are comfortably in playoff position, so perhaps it’s overstating things a bit to […]
neil (Neil Paine, senior sportswriter): After one of the weirdest seasons in NHL history, we finally have a champion! With a 1-0 victory Wednesday night, the Tampa Bay Lightning finished off the upstart Montreal Canadiens to win their second straight Stanley Cup and continue Tampa Bay’s run of sports dominance. It’s been an undeniably impressive […]
neil (Neil Paine, senior sportswriter): With roughly two weeks left in the NHL regular season, each player is making his closing arguments in the races for the league’s various pretty trophies. So for this week’s hockey chat, we wanted to handicap those award battles — plus hand out some fictional “anti-awards” to some of the […]
With just two months to go in the NHL’s regular season, the Tampa Bay Lightning are back in a familiar role: Stanley Cup favorites. According to an average of the title probabilities found at Hockey-Reference.com and the futures odds from Vegas, Tampa Bay currently has a league-best 10.8 percent chance of hoisting Lord Stanley’s mug […]