All Entries Tagged With: "Vincent Lecavalier"
The 20 most overpaid NHLers making more than $4.0M per year
More than one quarter into the 2011-12 NHL season, it’s time to have a look at the most overpaid NHLers who don’t contribute as much as their team and the general manger who signed them would like. Please note that I have not included players whose contract is buried in the AHL or oversees such [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 11-9-2 with 24 points through 22 games. After 22 games last season, the Bolts were 13-7-2 with 28 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division four point behind the Florida Panthers and 10th in the Eastern Conference. After 22 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team [...]
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 [...]
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 Training Camp Photo Gallery
The Tampa Bay Lightning opened training camp on Friday at the Ice Sports Forum in Brandon, Florida with off-ice testing and physicals. Ice was available for players who wanted to skate, but there were no organized practices. On-ice workouts were held Saturday and Sunday. All were free and open to the public. Below is the [...]
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 [...]
$tamkos Stays! Bolts Sign Superstar For Five Years
Our long international nightmare is over! Was it Philly? Was it Toronto…or the Panthers? Of course not. Superstar Steven Stamkos is staying put in Tampa Bay. Today, after much speculation to the contrary (some of the ridiculous nature}, the 21 year old sniper agreed to terms with the Lightning,making him a Bolt for the next [...]
Stamkos Is NHL 12 Cover Boy
Electronic Arts announced Wednesday at the NHL Awards, that 21-year old Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos will be the face of “NHL 12”, which hits stores in September. The new cover boy said, “It’s just something I’ve grown up playing my whole life. And to be on the cover is a pretty cool honor. [...]
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 [...]
