Latest blog entries from Tampa Bay teams across every league
The Complex Leagues in Arizona and Florida begin this weekend. Below are four Rays prospects to follow when their season kicks off. It’s rare for a team to get multiple early standouts from a single class – let alone four – but each of these players did enough in the Dominican Summer League to earn […]
Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Muse has been named a finalist for the Jack Adams Award. Muse was named one of the three finalists for the award, which is the NHL’s annual “Coach of the Year” award, alongside Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper and Buffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff. The Penguins were […]
Coming off back to back losing seasons, Baseball’s intellgentsia and proprietary projection systems had it out for the Tampa Bay Rays this past winter. MLB.com ranked them 22nd before a pitch was even thrown and a pair of experts didn’t predict them to be competitve in the Wild Card race. PECOTA projected 81 or 82 […]
The trade between the Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays in November 2022 didn’t make a lot of headlines. Part of that is because people – including those who live in Florida – don’t pay all that much attention to the two Florida teams. More importantly, the trade didn’t involve any headline talent. In exchange […]
The Toronto Maple Leafs , by all accounts, seem to have settled on their new hockey operations team. However, according to insider Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Thoughts podcast, MLSE initially had its sights set much higher. James Mirtle in The Athletic had a line about Toronto being turned down to speak to a current general manager. I believe that was Julien BriseBois of the Tampa Bay Lightning. That's who I think they asked permission to speak to, and they were rejected. But of co...
Game Six: Tampa Bay Lightning (2-3) at Montreal Canadiens (3-2) Time: 7:00 PM EST Location: Centre Bell, Montreal (Saw an excellent Oasis concert there once) TV/Stream/Radio: The Spot, ESPN2, ESPN+, 102.5 FM, Lightning App Odds: Lightning -115 Know the Opponents: Habs Eye on the Prize Win or go home. It’s that simple. Actually, if you think about it, it’s win and go home as well. It’s just a matter of the mood on the flight back to Tampa. A victory and the Lightni...
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference QFs Game 6: Montreal Canadiens (A3) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (A2) MTL leads 3-2 Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: ESPN2 In the Lightning region: The Spot Streaming: Sportsnet+ When the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning met in the 2021 Stanley Cup Final, the series didn’t need a Game 6. The Canadiens managed just one win, and the series w...
The Montreal Canadiens pulled off another thrilling victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning Wednesday night, with a 3-2 victory. That is also the margin by which they now lead the tightly-fought first-round series. The set now heads back to the raucous Bell Centre in Montreal for Game 6 tomorrow night and a chance for the Habs to clinch and move on to Round 2. Former NHL head coach, currently TSN Hockey analyst, Bruce Boudreau , gives us his 3 Keys to Victory for the Canadiens to wrap...
April is just about over, which means it’s time for our first GM approval poll of the 2026 regular season. We’ve learned several things through the first month of games. The American League could be an absolute dogpile with just the Yankees and Rays better than one game over .500, while across the league managers’ […]
The Yankees will end the first month of the season with a modest 1.5-game lead on the American League’s best record. Both the Yanks and the Rays—who are right behind them—are off today, so New York already knows that May will begin with them in front by a game and a half in both the […]
Alexandre Texier scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and Jakub Dobes made 38 saves in the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning at Benchmark International Arena on Wednesday. Brendan Gallagher and Kirby Dach also scored for the Canadiens, who took a 3-2 lead in the series. Dominic James scored his first career playoff goal and Jake Guentzel also tallied for the Lightning. Dan Vlader stopped 42 shots for his second shutout...
Montreal Canadiens news and notes Juraj Slafkovský is too nice on the ice and the Tampa Bay Lightning are using that to their advantage. [ Journal de Montreal ] Given what we’ve seen so far in the Stanley Cup playoffs, should the Canadiens have bought during the trade deadline? [ Journal de Montreal ] The Canadiens are exploring options for a Game 6 outdoor watch party after safety concerns led to the removal of barricades. [ CBC ] Veterans will have to help keep emotions...
The Tampa Bay Lightning battled back from one goal deficits twice against the Montreal Canadiens in Game Five of their first round series. Unfortunately, they couldn’t answer Alexandre Texier’s early third-period goal as Jakub Dobes made 17 of his 38 saves in the final frame to preserve a 3-2 Montreal win. The series heads back to Montreal with the Lightning facing elimination on Friday. The too-long-didn’t-read version of the game is that Montreal scored all of the big momentum goals. Th...
First period They wanted to have towels for the fans to make Benchmark International Arena like the Bell Centre. You can hear a pin drop moments after the opening puck drop. Well, that’s exactly what Martin St-Louis was hoping for when he inserted Brendan Gallagher into the lineup: charge at the net and clean up a rebound. It’s Newhook’s rebound after he got onto his own wide shot, leaving an empty cage for the veteran to hit. Montreal had as many high-danger chan...
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference QFs Game 5: Montreal Canadiens (A3) @ Tampa Bay Lightning (A2) Series tied 2-2 Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: ESPN2 In the Lightning region: The Spot Streaming: Sportsnet+ The first personnel change has been made by Martin St-Louis in the series. The move is to give Brendan Gallagher his first playoff game of the season at the expense of Oliv...
The Rays were looking to extend their winning run against AL teams but completing a sweep of the Guardians, but to get there, they’d need to battle it out with Mother Nature first. Those with no domes must suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous meteorological fortune, in this case being a typical Ohio rain […]
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Game Five: Montreal Canadiens (2-2) at Tampa Bay Lightning (2-2) Time: 7:00 PM EST Location: Benchmark International Arena, Tampa, FL TV/Stream/Radio: The Spot, ESPN2, ESPN+, 102.5 FM, Lightning App Odds: Lightning -160 Know the Opponents: Habs Eye on the Prize Prior to this series starting one of the things that perplexed us here at Raw Charge Worldwide Incorporated was the overwhelming notion by some, either national media or on social media, that the Lightning ...
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference QFs Game 5: Montreal Canadiens (A3) @ Tampa Bay Lightning (A2) Series tied 2-2 Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: ESPN2 In the Lightning region: The Spot Streaming: ESPN+, Sportsnet+ Through the first three games of the series between the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning, the Habs had held their opponent to eight high-danger chances at ...
In the NHL playoffs Tuesday night, the two trailing teams won to extend their series, while Minnesota broke the 2-2 tie to pull ahead of Dallas, 3-2. But before that, a bit of Islanders fodder… Islanders News NHL Playoffs Tonight, someone will take a 3-2 lead in the Lightning-Canadiens series, while the Penguins will look […]
With the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning deadlocked at two wins apiece after four games, the series has become the talk of NHL circles as not just the most entertaining and fiery series of the first round, but possibly the most even series in recent memory. The teams boasted 106 points each in the regular season, though if you looked under the hood you would see a sizable gap in the ability to consistently control play, favouring Tampa Bay. Yet the series has reflected much clo...
Montreal Canadiens news and notes Martin St-Louis must contemplate changes to spark the top six. [ Sportsnet ] The Habs focus on flipping the script for Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Lightning. [ Montreal Gazette ] Can the Canadiens’ youthful skill overcome the Lightning’s experience in a best-of-three? [ Montreal Gazette ] Montreal must control their emotions, even in the face of a storm. [ RDS ] Jakub Dobeš maximizes his strengths through fearless aggression. [ The ...
The story before the game was Cleveland top prospect Travis Bazzana was recalled to help kickstart a struggling Guardians offense which had posted a 95 wRc+ over the past two weeks. While Bazzana did his part to help matters drawing two walks, Nick Martinez and comapny caused trouble and bothered everybody in the Cleveland lineup […]
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Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid has officially been selected as a finalist for the 2026 Ted Lindsay Award. The award is presented annually to the player who is deemed “most outstanding” as voted by fellow members of the NHL Players’ Association. San Jose Sharks sophomore Macklin Celebrini and Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov were…