It feels like every postseason brings about familiar foes – players returning to previous home cities to face former ...

The Wild were 21-10-4 before his prolonged time on the shelf and 3-1-0 upon his return in April. Matt Boldy stepped up in his ...

Will the Florida Panthers' physicality match up to the Tampa Bay Lightning's skill ... While no team that loses a superstar like Jack Hughes should be considered anything other than an underdog ...

The 2024-25 NHL regular season concludes on Thursday, with the Stanley Cup playoffs beginning at the weekend. Now that we ...

In the Eastern Conference, the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers have all the ingredients to repeat, but they face a tough matchup against their rivals the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Gentille: I picked the Lightning too, but are we sure the pendulum ... I thought I was going against the grain by pushing my chips all in on Tampa Bay. Turns out, everyone had the same idea.

Tampa Bay has the edge in goal with Andrei Vasilevskiy, Nikita Kucherov has been spectacular, and that's enough to make the home-ice edge in this series count. Jace Evans: Lightning in 6.

After missing the last two months of the regular season with a lower-body injury, Tkachuk opened the 2025 postseason with a ...

Matthew Tkachuk returned to action with two goals, and the Stanley Cup champs swiped home-ice advantage by thumping the host ...

Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round matchup between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers ended with a ...

The Lightning will defend their teammates, but they don’t have many enforcer types. Defenseman Emil Lilleberg is the ...