All Entries Tagged With: "Andrej Meszaros"
Quite the Coup After All: Trade Price for Gagne Well Worth the Risk
So, yeah, I’ve spent much of the last week preaching every reason I could think of as to why Steve Yzerman and the Tampa Bay Lightning should not acquire Simon Gagne from the Philadelphia Flyers and I did so in several forums. Here, where comments and responses elsewhere were split – about 50/50, in terms [...]
Gagne to Tampa Anything but “Methodical”
I exchanged several tweets with Tampa Bay Lightning fans this morning after sharing my opinions on reports that the Bolts should/could/might be interested in acquiring Philadelphia Flyers forward Simon Gagne. I came away slightly disheartened. Have we learned nothing from the last two summers? Granted, making a play for a proven commodity in Gagne wouldn’t [...]
Kovalchuk, Gagne And The Salary Cap Tango
Kovalchuk holding up Gagne trade? Flyers interested in the Russian Sniper? Is Kovalchuk just waiting to see where LeBron and Wade go?
Bolts Day 1 Free Agent Frenzy: Yzerman Performs Magic
The hockey Gods are shining down on Hockey Bay lately and that trend continued today as the NHL’s “Free Agent Frenzy” began. The chosen Lightning apostle, Steve Yzerman, blessed the Lightning faithful by making the team better while remaining fiscally responsible. Tampa Bay fans were overjoyed to hear that diminutive forward Martin St. Louis will [...]
Christmas In July? Flyers Fans Get Festivus. Updated
It’s a safe bet that The Hockey News won’t pick the Philadelphia Flyers as their pre-season Cup winners.
Attention NHL Shoppers: Lightning Free Agent Frenzy Is Here!
Now that the draft is over, Bolthead Nation can focus on the “Free Agent Frenzy” that begins on Thursday, July 1. The Tampa Bay Lightning probably won’t get involved in signing an upper echelon free agent player. The free agent pool is shallow as compared to other years and new GM Steve Yzerman simply cannot [...]
Sabres Draft, Rumors, and News
Barring a trade, the Buffalo Sabres will enter this weekend with 9 picks for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. The Sabres first round selection is slated to be picked at #23 overall. While some Sabres fans may not be to excited for having to wait until the 23rd pick on Friday night, there are some [...]
Lightning Playing Out The String…Again
The Lightning has plummeted from 6th to 14th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference in just two months. They are now eight points behind the eighth place Boston Bruins. With eleven games remaining, Boston needs to go 5-5-1 to force the Bolts to win every one of their ten remaining games. That accompanied with [...]
Heading Into the Trade Deadline…
With the NHL trade deadline less than 48 hours away, there is plenty to talk about for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Read on as I cover the Olympics, the assistant coaching change, and the upcoming trade deadline…
Lightning Players Making An Impact At Olympic Games
The Tampa Bay Lightning has been well represented at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here’s what the Tampa Bay contingent has done so far, through the early preliminary rounds Goaltender Antero Niittymaki has sat on the bench and watched team Finland go undefeated in two games. Bolt’s defenseman Andrej Meszaros has not gotten on [...]
Lightning Looking To Move Andrej Meszaros?
Tampa Bay Lightning GM Brian Lawton said that the team could be in buying mode before the March 3rd trade deadline should they stay in playoff contention. In today’s St. Pete Times Lawton said, “We’re looking to be aggressive. That’s the way we’ve been preparing for the last month and a half as we see [...]
Shootout Drought
The Tampa Bay Lightning are ridiculously inept in shootouts. Tuomo Ruutu netted the goal to clinch the shootout victory for the Carolina Hurricanes after former Bolt Jussi Jokinen scored his team’s only goal in regulation as the ‘Canes won 2-1 Tuesday night, extending the Lightning’s RBC Center losing streak to seven games. Carolina’s Sergei Samsonov [...]
Time Out! I’ve Seen This Before!
The Tampa Bay Lightning defense stood around and watched Thrashers forwards Ilya Kovalchuk and Rich Peverley skate all over the ice and score at will. Both players beat Lightning goalie Mike Smith twice, leading the Atlanta Thrashers to a 6-3 win over the Bolts in the season opener. Atlanta goalie Ondrej Pavelec resoundingly outplayed Smith [...]
Hockey Bay USA Season Preview And Prediction
2008-09 Recap: Dismal The Lightning finished 2008-09 last in the Southeast Division and 14th in the Eastern Conference with a poor 24-40-18 record and 66 points. They had four players that netted 20 or more goals and six players in total that had double-digit goals. Martin St. Louis (30 goals. 50 assists and 80 points) [...]
Bolts Cut Roster: Who’s In-Who’s Out
Once the scrimmage with Norfolk was completed last night, the Turk visited eleven Lightning players. After clearing waivers, forwards Martins Karsums and Blair Jones were assigned to AHL Norfolk. Goaltenders Dustin Tokarski, Riku Helenius and Jaroslav Janus (unsigned), defensemen Vladimir Mihalik and Ty Wishart, and forwards Juraj Simek, Paul Szczechura and Dana Tyrell were also [...]
