Waltteri Merela has signed with SC Bern in the National League which is Switzerland’s top-tier professional hockey league. The Tampa Bay Lightning signed the 25-year-old to a one-year, two-way contract as an undrafted free agent before the start of the 2023-24 season from Tappara of the Finish Elite League.
After a 52-win season for the 2023-24 Winnipeg Jets, a Nikolaj Ehlers trade could happen this summer. A ninth overall pick ten years ago, the Danish native posted another solid offensive season for Winnipeg under Head Coach Rick Bowness.
The Tampa Bay Lightning franchise and its fans have become accustomed to success. For seven straight seasons, the team has qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
On Thursday, the Tampa Bay Lightning agreed to a two-year contract with one of their pending free agents. Declan Carlile, a 24-year-old defenseman, was set to be a restricted free agent this summer, but the club avoided that process by signing him to a two-year, two-way contract that will keep him in the organization through the 2025-26 season.
Tampa Bay Lightning vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced today that the club has re-signed defenseman Declan Carlile to a two-year, two-way contract.
Andrei Vasilevskiy‘s post-surgery season came and went. Now that it’s been a few weeks since this season ended, it’s time for a final evaluation. It was nowhere near the quality of any previous season.
When Tampa Bay Lightning prospect Ilya Usau was put on waivers to have his contract terminated last month, the prevailing wisdom was that the Belarusian would be heading to the KHL.
The Kansas City Mavericks have a great goaltending tandem of Cale Morris and Jack LaFontaine during the regular season and throughout the first three rounds
It was the summer of 2019 and after 13 seasons and 963 games with the San Jose Sharks, Joe Pavelski was a free agent being courted by teams all across the league.
The NHL is down to just two teams. Unfortunately, the Tampa Bay Lightning are not one of them. While it’s perfectly okay to watch the Stanley Cup Final as a complete neutral, it’s also fun to pick a side and support them, even if it’s just temporary.
Now that the Toronto Maple Leafs have hired their head coach, Craig Berube, he is likely making the rounds to connect with the players on his roster. The team’s general manager, Brad Treliving, needs to turn his attention to how he can improve their roster for the 2024–25 season.
The Tampa Bay Lightning have some big decisions to make this offseason. They re-acquired defenseman Ryan McDonagh at the end of May, are hoping to re-sign their franchise player, Steven Stamkos, and defenseman Mikhail Sergachev will ideally count toward the salary cap for the full season in 2024-25 – aka he’s healthy.
Pro Hockey Rumors continues its look around the NHL with an overview of the free-agent situation for the Lightning.
Yesterday, there was a deadline for the Tampa Bay Lightning to extend a bona fide offer to goaltending prospect Nick Malik to retain his draft rights. The 22-year-old netminder was drafted by the Lightning in the fifth round of the 2022 draft and has spent the last couple of seasons playing for KooKoo in the Liiga.
In terms of theory behind microstats, they are descriptive statistics that represent game events versus a player’s ability. In hockey, microstats evaluate individual player and team performance.
The Tampa Bay Lightning are another year removed from their postseason glories of the past decade. What must they do this offseason to once more compete for the Stanley Cup in earnest?
Steven Stamkos’s contract is up and the Tampa Bay Lightning have a critical decision to make regarding the future of Stamkos and the Bolts. Today on Daily Faceoff Live, Frank Seravalli shined a light on the cap situation in Tampa and what the plan moving forward is for the veteran and two-time Stanley Cup champion.
Before last year’s deadline, the Lightning pulled off one of the most controversial trades in recent memory by unloading five draft picks and defense prospect Callan Foote to acquire middle-six winger Tanner Jeannot from the Predators.
The Tampa Bay Lightning have been the NHL’s model franchise for a long time. Tampa Bay dominated the league during the late 2010s and early 2020s. In fact, they once tied the regular season wins record with 62 in the 2018-19 season.
The Tampa Bay Lightning offseason is officially underway and will be interesting to watch. Over the last decade, the Bolts have been the gold standard for winning in the National Hockey League.
The Tampa Bay Lightning are playing a dangerous game. It’s been three years since the Bolts won the Stanley Cup; just two since they last made the Final.
The Tampa Bay Lightning wasted no time in making some changes to their roster. After being eliminated in the first round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Florida Panthers, they have gotten to work.
The Tampa Bay Lightning appear to have fallen quite a bit from their halcyon days of 2020 and 2021 when they won back-to-back Stanley Cup championships.
Lightning HC Jon Cooper said on Wednesday that his controversial comment 'pained [him]' more than series loss vs. Panthers.
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