All Entries Tagged With: "Kurtis Foster"
It’s the Smaller Moves That Have Paid Bigger Dividends For the New Jersey Devils in the Past
Two years ago this past February 4th, the New Jersey Devils made a huge unexpected splash in the trade market, acquiring Ilya Kovalchuk from the Atlanta Thrashers in a move that took much of the National Hockey League by surprise. After all, Kovalchuk was considered a big flashy, free wheeling offensive player and the consensus was he would have [...]
Red Wings Make It Sixteen Straight on Home Ice, Beat Blue Jackets 3-2 in Shootout
Valtteri Filppula scored the lone and deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout as the Detroit Red Wings (32-15-1) beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 for their 16th straight victory on home ice. Jimmy Howard stopped the final shooter, Ryan Johansen, to seal his 29th win of the season, which leads all NHL [...]
Top-10 oversized players in the NHL
Following last week’s blog on the Top-10 undersized players in the NHL these days, I decided to do the exact opposite and have a look at the NHL’s biggest and strongest NHL players who can dominate the game with their size advantage over smaller and lighter players. These jumbo players have always received extra attention [...]
Lightning Off-Season Rolling Along
Well, look what the cat dragged in? Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you, folks. Yup, it’s that guy (and in written form, no less!) Formerly of ‘Da Buzz, currently the co-host of The Bolts Beat podcast and soon to be a permanent fixture as a featured contributor at another prominent hockey web site (to [...]
Bolts Bring Back Kubina
The Lightning have signed former Bolt defenseman Pavel Kubina to a two year contract worth $7.7 million. Kubina started his NHL career with the Lightning, patrolling the Bolts blue line for eight years from 1997-2006. The 6’4″, 250 lbs. defenseman was a large contributor to the Lightning’s 2003-04 Stanley Cup winning team. After the following [...]
Happy Canada Day and FreeAgentmas!
Recent research by Canadian historians has revealed that the Fathers of Confederation made one other landmark decision after signing the British North American Act in 1867, the document which gave Canada official status as a nation. Nobody knows for sure which Father came up with the idea, but on July 1, 1867 in Prince Edward Island, one wag [...]
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 [...]
Master(ton) of Their Domain
We all get those little aches and pains that we just suck up and wait to go away. I had one of those in my knee last week, something that I just chalked up to some act of clumsiness that I didn’t remember and figured would just go away on its own. That is, until [...]
The Race is On!!
A look at the current three-horse race for the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy.
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 [...]
Lesser-Known Lightning: Kurtis Foster
*Lesser-Known Lightning is a segment where I will try to better inform fans about some Lightning players. These players may be new to Tampa Bay and/or not as well known as some of the fan-favourites. The differences between this segment and a young prospect review are that the players reviewed here will have past NHL [...]
Lightning Summer Of Discontent Is Thankfully Over
To be very clear, I am not a fan of Tampa Bay Lightning owners Oren Koules and Len Barrie. They have done some outright stupid things that have set the franchise back for years. They are embroiled in a business tug of war that will end with one of them face down in the mud, [...]
