Erik Cernak scored a quirky, tiebreaking goal with less than three minutes left, and the Lightning opened a season-long seven-game homestand with five unanswered tallies in a 6-3 win to split the season series with the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
Nikita Kucherov continues to establish himself as one of the NHL’s all-time greats, and the Tampa Bay Lightning superstar was the catalyst of a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at Benchmark International Arena on Thursday night.
Gage Goncalves and Jake Guentzel each scored two goals as the Tampa Bay Lightning collected just their third win since the Winter Olympics break, beating the visiting Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Thursday night.
An injury-plagued season continues for the Tampa Bay Lightning. According to head coach Jon Cooper, forwards Dominic James and Gage Goncalves will miss at least the team’s next two games after suffering injuries during Saturday’s 6-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres.
Just when the injury bug finally started to ease up on the Toronto Maple Leafs a little bit, they got hit with two more blows. First it was Dakota Mermis,
Monday’s game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning saw some physicality, including a sequence where a player from each team was ejected.
The Lightning have placed forward Dominic James on injured reserve, per Erik Erlendsson of Lightning Insider. He sustained an undisclosed injury in Saturday’s game against the Capitals.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
As free agency has started in the National Hockey League, many teams, including the Tampa Bay Lightning, are making significant roster moves with free agents and player extensions.
Free agency is less than a month away and teams are looking ahead to when it opens. There will be several impact players set to hit the open market in July while many teams have key restricted free agents to re-sign as well. We continue our look around the NHL with an overview of the free agent situation for the Lightning.
Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel each had a goal with an assist, and Gage Goncalves notched the deciding tally in the shootout, as the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning won 3-2 over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.
On Jan. 13, the Tampa Bay Lightning placed their 2020 second-round pick, Gage Goncalves, on waivers. Having spent the past three seasons with the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League (AHL), Goncalves proved roughly three weeks into the 2024-25 season that he was well past top-line minutes in the minors.
According to NHL insider Elliott Friedman, Tampa Bay Lightning forward Gage Goncalves has been placed on waivers. If he clears, he’ll be assigned to the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL.
We’ve fallen behind in our first goal series, and with the Lightning enjoying a couple of days off, we decided to rectify that situation by posting a couple of the newest Bolts to record their first NHL goals.
It’s a new era of Tampa Bay Lightning hockey. They’ll have a new captain and a chunk of the team will look very different. After last season, it’s clear there had to be some kind of change if they want to keep the window of contention open.
Gage Goncalves is under contract and on the cusp of making it to the NHL. On Friday, the Tampa Bay Lightning announced that they had re-signed their pending restricted free agent to a one-year, two-way contract.
The Tampa Bay Lightning announced Friday they re-signed forward Gage Goncalves to a one-year, two-way contract. The 23-year-old made his NHL debut last season, appearing in two games and recording six penalty minutes.
The Tampa Bay Lightning have recalled forward Gage Goncalves from the Syracuse Crunch, just one day after the American Hockey League (AHL) announced that the 22-year-old will represent the North Division at the 2024 AHL All-Star Classic, which will be held Feb.