The Chicago Blackhawks Are Another Team to Watch This Offseason Patrick Present: Anaheim Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas missed Game 2 last night with an undisclosed injury.
Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper is calling for a penalty box attendant to lose his job after Pontus Holmberg was injured Monday night when he fell into a partially open door.
The NHL is looking into the circumstances that led to Tampa Bay Lightning forward Pontus Holmberg hurting his left arm when he crashed shoulder-first into an unlatched penalty box door in Monday night's 4-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center.
It’s not often you see a head coach take out their frustrations on non-NHL team employees, and even less often that it’s a justified frustration, but that’s exactly what happened during the game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Buffalo Sabres.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The Toronto Maple Leafs firing general manager Brad Treliving came as a surprise this late into the season with seven games remaining. While it was a decision
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.
The Calgary Flames welcomed the Tampa Bay Lightning to town on Sunday evening, with the visitors flying into Calgary in the wee hours of the morning after a win in Edmonton.
If you’ve watched the Toronto Maple Leafs long enough, you start to notice a pattern—and not a good one. For whatever reason, this team keeps whiffing on young talent.
According to Erik Erlendsson of Lightning Insider, the Tampa Bay Lightning have activated depth forward Pontus Holmberg from the injured reserve. No corresponding roster move was required as the Lightning placed defenseman Erik Cernak on injured reserve a few days ago.
The Tampa Bay Lightning will get a bit of relief from their current slog of injuries, as head coach Jon Cooper announced that center Pontus Holmberg is expected to return to the lineup against the Calgary Flames.
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.
In a summer full of flashier moves and all-too-familiar roster shuffling, one decision by the Toronto Maple Leafs slid under the radar—but maybe shouldn’t have.
The departure of Mitch Marner marked a significant shift for the Toronto Maple Leafs, leaving fans wondering how the team could fill the void left by one of their top stars.
The Toronto Maple Leafs didn't qualify forward Pontus Holmberg ahead of free agency on July 1, and one of their strongest divisional rivals lost no time in poucing. With Homberg entering the open market, the Tampa Bay Lightning moved quickly and signed the winger to a two-year contract worth $3.1 million.
The Tampa Bay Lightning just strengthened their forward depth by signing 26-year-old Pontus Holmberg to a two-year deal worth $1.55 million annually. This move shows Tampa acting decisively to add a reliable, two-way winger.
Julien BriseBois continues to add organizational depth as free agency opened on Tuesday. The Tampa Bay Lightning general manager announced that the team has signed forwards Pontus Holmberg and Boris Katchouk, along with defenseman Simon Lundmark, to contracts.
Pontus Holmberg isn’t the flashiest name on the Toronto Maple Leafs’ roster, but that’s exactly what makes him so valuable. In a salary-cap world where stars eat up the budget, teams live and die by what they get from their bottom six, and Holmberg quietly delivered in 2024–25.
Pontus Holmberg is in many ways the ideal bottom six player. A big part of that is his price tag at $800k and the fact that the Leafs have been getting a lot more value out of him than that.
As the Toronto Maple Leafs get ready for the playoffs, the skill of their depth played will be a key factor to the team’s success. One player who has quietly made his mark this season and deserves a look in the postseason lineup is Pontus Holmberg.
Ex-Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe always appreciated Pontus Holmberg’s consistency and reliability. Keefe assessed that the young Swedish forward seldom made mistakes.
Pontus Holmberg's strong play since the 4 Nations Face-Off has given the Maple Leafs a lot to think about ahead of the March 7th trade deadline. The Toronto Maple Leafs enjoyed the sweet taste of victory again, winning 5-4 in overtime for a thrilling come-from-behind victory over their rivals, the Boston Bruins on Tuesday.
Pontus Holmberg is making hay in his first-ever World Hockey Championship experience. On Monday, the Toronto Maple Leafs young forward picked up another assist in Sweden’s 3-1 victory against France.
The Toronto Maple Leafs might not be active right now, but a few of their players are at the IIHF World Hockey Championship in Czechia. One of those is Sweden’s Pontus Holmberg, who just completed his second NHL campaign with the Leafs.