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NHL players entered the playoff bubbles sans fans in Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta, on July 26, and on Monday night, the journey that was spent for the majority without friends and family nearby ended with the Tampa Bay Lightning hoisting the Stanley Cup. For the Western Conference champion Dallas Stars, who finished third in the Central […]
It was pretty obvious a Lightning player was going to win the 2020 Conn Smythe Trophy when members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association submitted their ballots, but there were multiple choices. Would the playoffs MVP be Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay’s top defenseman and SN’s pre-series choice for the award? Or would it be Bolts center Brayden Point, […]
Hey, it’s 2020, so why not do things a little differently? Unlike previous years when the captain goes by himself to meet NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, shakes his hand, smiles for the cameras and picks up the Stanley Cup, the Lightning as a group surrounded Bettman as he stood next to the greatest trophy in all of sports. It […]
EDMONTON, Alberta — The Tampa Bay Lightning are the champions of bubble hockey. Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 on Monday night to win the Stanley Cup and finish off the most unusual NHL postseason in history, staged nearly entirely in quarantine because of the pandemic. […]
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. EDMONTON, Alberta — Tampa Bay defenseman Victor Hedman won the Conn Smythe Award as the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs MVP. Hedman, 29, scored 10 goals this summer — Paul Coffey (12) and Brian Leetch (11) are the only defenseman to ever record more. He also led the Lightning […]
Jack could soon be out of the box in Buffalo. Semi-retired NHL insider Bob McKenzie returned to the tweet machine on Monday to drop some fairly interesting news: Sabres center Jack Eichel may (or may not) want out of Buffalo, with the Sabres front office answering calls for his services. McKenzie reports that Buffalo isn’t actively […]
The 2019-20 season could officially come to an end Saturday night. It has been more than 365 days since training camp and preseason games got underway, and now the Lightning are one win away from putting the final stamp on the season and win the Stanley Cup. Tampa Bay took a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven […]
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. The Tampa Bay Lightning have a chance to clinch the Stanley Cup on Saturday night, but they’ll have to do it without their captain, Steven Stamkos. The 30-year-old center will not play in Game 5, coach Jon Cooper announced on Saturday morning. The Lightning lead the Stanley Cup […]
Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn watched from the penalty box as Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk’s shot floated into the net at 6:34 of overtime to win Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final. His teammates believe he shouldn’t have been in the box at all. “That’s […]
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Steven Stamkos will not play in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, however the Tampa Bay Lightning captain has not been ruled out for the rest of the series. Coach Jon Cooper made the announcement Friday morning, saying that Stamkos is “unfit to play.” The Lightning have […]