All Entries Tagged With: "Martin St. Louis"
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 9-8-2 with 20 points through 19 games. After 19 games last season, the Bolts were 10-7-2 with 22 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division three points behind the Florida Panthers and 12th in the Eastern Conference. After 19 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team in [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 8-6-2 with 18 points through 16 games. After 16 games last season, the Bolts were 9-5-2 with 20 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division three points behind the Washington Capitals and eighth in the Eastern Conference. After 16 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 7-5-2 with 16 points through 14 games. After 14 games last season, the Bolts were 8-4-2 with 18 points. The Lightning are in second place in the Southeast Division two points behind the Washington Capitals and seventh in the Eastern Conference. After 14 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team and the NHL in goals with ten. and [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Introducing The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 5-4-2 with 12 points through eleven games. After eleven games last season, the Bolts were 7-2-2 with 16 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division, tied with Florida, two points behind the Washington Capitals and seventh in the Eastern Conference. After eleven games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team in goals with [...]
Connolly Conundrum Solved – Bolts Rookie is Staying
After last nights win over the Buffalo Sabres, Tampa Bay Lightning GM Steve Yzerman wasted no time in telling everyone that he had decided to keep 19 year old rookie forward Brett Connolly with the big club. In a text message to the media, Yzerman wrote, “We feel Brett’s shown that he belongs in the [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 3-3-2 with eight points through eight games. After eight games last season, the Bolts were 5-2-1 with 11 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division, six points behind the Washington Capitals and seventh in the Eastern Conference. After eight games, forward Martin St. Louis leads the team in goals with three. Defenseman [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 1-2-2 with four points in their first five games. Certainly not the start they wanted. They are in fourth place in the Southeast Division, already four points behind the Washington Capitals and 11th in the Eastern Conference. After five games, defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron leads the team in goals (2), assists [...]
Did Boucher Outsmart Himself and Cost the Bolts a Point?
“It’s only one point lost. It’s too early in the season to panic,” said a fan. “Guy Boucher knows what he’s doing,” said another. After the OK Hockey circus left town, most Tampa Bay Lightning fans and mainstream media members were so hungry for anything positive, that after one successful season, they have bought into [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
Game Summaries Game 1: Tampa Bay 5 – Carolina 1 Steve Downie and Adam Hall netted goals in a ten second span in the third period to propel the Tampa Bay Lightning past the Carolina Hurricanes 5-1 in the season opener. Goalie Dwayne Roloson looked good, making 32 saves. The win improved the Bolts all-time [...]
Peverley’s Pair Leads B’s Past Bolts At TD Garden
On Saturday evening, the Bruins played host to the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning in the first of 4 meetings this season, between the two squads. Despite the pre-game expectations of Tuukka Rask to get the start, it was veteran netminder Tim Thomas who got the start for the B’s, against Tampa’s Mathieu Garon. The [...]
Bolts Make Final Cuts – Connolly Stays, Tyrell Goes
Today the Tampa Bay Lightning cut down to the23 man roster limit by sending forward Dana Tyrell to Norfolk. This means that their number one prospect, Brett Connolly has made the team. The junior eligible, 19 year old sniper can play a total of nine games before the Lightning needs to decide whether or not [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning 2011-12 Season Preview: Master Chef Yzerman is Whipping Up a Winner
Tampa Bay Lightning General Manager Steve Yzerman’s recipe for success finds the Bolts armed and ready to continue their climb to the top of the NHL in the coming season. No one could have predicted the 2010-11 Bolts would make it to the Eastern Conference Final and finally succumb to the eventual Cup winners, the Boston Bruins [...]
Martin St. Louis Wins Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
The heart and soul of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Martin St. Louis won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for the second consecutive year tonight at the NHL Awards Show in Las Vegas. The award is presented to the player who displays gentlemanly conduct. St. Louis had a season to remember in 2011 accumulating 31 goals, [...]
Looking Into the Lightning’s Crystal Ball
Tampa Bay Lightning GM Steve Yzerman said yesterday, “We will increase our payroll.” Of course he wasn’t specific as to how this would happen, but with the Lightning making it to the Eastern Conference Final, his “methodical” approach may have to change. Tampa Bay is a good and competitive team and much of the time, [...]
Thomas and Bruins Defense too Much for Bolts
For the first time since 1990, the Boston Bruins are headed to the Stanley Cup Final. Boston goalie Tim Thomas made 24 saves and the Bruins defense was perfect as they shutout the Tampa Bay Lightning 1-0 in a classic Game 7 to win the Eastern Conference Championship. Lightning backstop Dwayne Roloson was nothing short [...]
Coach Boucher, Vinny, Marty, Roli and Gags Talk Game 7
In today’s off-day press conference, Tampa Bay Lightning coach Guy Boucher and players Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, Dwayne Roloson and Simon Gagne spoke about playing in a deciding Game 7. Coach Boucher: “Well, we’re one day away from playing the first five minutes of the game tomorrow. If you’re expecting perfection obviously you’re going [...]
Tampa Bay’s “Big Three” Lead the Way to Game 7
The heart and soul of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Martin St. Louis had two goals and an assist to lead his team to a hard fought 5-4 victory over the Boston Bruins in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals last night in Tampa. Playing without their injured NHL playoff goal scoring leader, Sean Bergenheim, the [...]
Morning Skate Topics: Bergenheim, The Big Three, Furlatt, Fleming and Stamkos
Tampa Bay Lightning coach Guy Boucher, once again spoke to the media following today’s morning skate in preparation for tonight’s Eastern Conference Finals Game 6 versus the Boston Bruins at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. He was asked if injured forward Sean Bergenheim will play tonight. “The doctors are looking at him now, [...]
Guy Boucher’s Game 5 Post-Game Press Conference
Following the Game 5 loss to the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning coach Guy Boucher answered questions from the media. Question: I just wondered if you could talk about your decision on the goaltending. Mike Smith told us you didn’t tell him until about lunchtime and he said maybe that was to kind of keep [...]
Bolts Battle Back to Even Series
Saturday afternoon, the Boston Bruins learned that not even a three goal lead is safe against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Bolts forward Simon Gagne netted the game winner as his wrist shot scooted past Bruins defenseman Tomas Kaberle and goalie Tim Thomas at 6:54 of the third period. Martin St. Louis added an empty net [...]
