It seems Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois will not let a non-game day go by without making a move this season. His latest transaction involves yet another forward as the Lightning placed Mitchell Chaffee on waivers on Monday.
A couple of familiar names have been put on the wire to start the week. On Monday, Tampa Bay Lightning forward Mitchell Chaffee and Washington Capitals forward Brett Leason were both put on waivers, making them available to the other 31 teams in the NHL.
The Tampa Bay Lightning’s quest to never lose again got off to a good start as they took down the Carolina Hurricanes, 2-1, to kick off their preseason slate of games.
The NHL Department of Player Safety announced Friday that Florida Panthers forward Jesse Puljujarvi has been suspended for two games as a result of an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay Lightning forward Mitchell Chaffee.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
On Wednesday, the NHL Department of Player Safety announced that Florida Panthers forward Jesse Puljujarvi will have a hearing on Thursday in regard to an illegal check to the head on Tampa Bay Lightning forward Mitchell Chaffee.
Despite losing to the Minnesota Wild in regulation on Thursday night (Oct. 24), there are plenty of reasons for Tampa Bay Lightning fans to remain optimistic in the early stages of the 2024-25 season.
When the Tampa Bay Lightning face the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday (at 7:30 PM ET), is Mitchell Chaffee going to light the lamp? We have stats and trends to help you make the right bet here.
If the Tampa Bay Lightning have taught fans anything besides what it takes to win the Stanley Cup, they have shown there is no single path to the NHL. Every season, Tampa Bay appears to have a new late bloomer come out of nowhere.
A rookie forward who played more than 5 games for Coach Cooper? In this economy? Indeed, that did happen, and it wasn’t from one of the Lightning’s draft picks.
Here we sit in the middle of May. While four teams are still playing (well, technically five since the Oilers and Canucks are still slogging through their series) the Tampa Bay Lightning are well into off-season mode.
Anytime a team fails to achieve the ultimate goal of winning a Stanley Cup, a lot of focus is on the negative. Often, it’s to the point of blocking out some positive things that happened over the course of an 82-game season.
Mitchell Chaffee has had an interesting last year or so. In November of 2022 he was playing for the Iowa Wild, riding a four-game goal streak when he suffered a knee injury that ended his season.