Lightning’s 3 Best Contracts for the 2023-24 NHL Season

Well, it's that time of the year again. With September on the calendar, we are just a few weeks away from the start of training camp, which means we can take a long look at the Tampa Bay Lightning's roster for THW's yearly best and wor...

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Blackhawks News & Rumors: Prospects, Bedard, Hagel & More

Summer is rolling right along as we head into the last week of August. Before we know it, there will be training camps and preseason hockey games for the Chicago Blackhawks and the rest of the NHL. The time is u...

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#ChicagoBlackhawks #NewsAndRumors #BrandonHagel #ConnorBedard #JasonDickinson #ReeseJohnson
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Lightning Hagel Signing Allows Team to Still Focus on the Future

The Tampa Bay Lightning are not going to rest on their laurels. As the team continues to deal with a tight salary cap, they have not only developed a roster to compete for another Stanley Cup in 2023-24, but they are also making sure that the Lightning will be a contend...

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Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson’s 3 Best Trades So Far

If there's one thing we've learned about Chicago Blackhawks general manager (GM) Kyle Davidson, it's that he isn't afraid to be bold. Davidson spent four months as interim GM before taking over full-time in March 2022 and has made a full 180 from t...

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Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: BriseBois, Vasilevskiy & More

Welcome to this edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stock Up and Stock Down, with the final edition of the 2022-23 season focusing on looking back on the season and what lies ahead.

It has been a while since ...

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NHL Should Not Make Officials Available to the Media

Recently, my The Hockey Writer's colleague Mark Scheig wrote a column detailing why the NHL should start making officials available to the media after the games, much in how it is done for players and coaches. The idea is that when calls are made that affect the game, th...

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5 Former Blackhawks to Watch in 2023 Playoffs

The Chicago Blackhawks might've been far from Stanley Cup contention this past season, but there are still many reasons to watch this year's playoffs. The team has 19 former players competing in the postseason, 15 of whom are chasing their first Cup. Some ...

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#ChicagoBlackhawks #AnttiRaanta #BrandonHagel #PatrickKane #PhillipDanault
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Top 10 Underpaid Wingers in the NHL in 2022-23

This is a mini-series looking at the top 10 underpaid players from each position in the NHL, and we continue by looking at wingers. In general, wingers aren't paid as much as centermen, but many are just breaking out and have yet to sign lucrative contra...

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#Top10Lists #BrandonHagel #CarterVerhaeghe #MichaelBunting #RyanNugent-Hopkins
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Lightning Continue to Reap Benefits From Hagel Trade 1 Year Later

On March 18, 2022, the scrawl at the bottom of NHL Network broke in with breaking news to announce that the Tampa Bay Lightning had acquired Brandon Hagel from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for two conditional first-round draft picks (2023 and 2024), forward Bor...

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Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: Hagel, Kucherov & More

Welcome to this edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stock Up and Stock Down, a weekly column detailing the highs and lows of the team’s performance. 

The Tampa Bay Lightning had an excellent week, starting with back-to-back victorie...

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Blackhawks: Revisiting the Brandon Hagel Trade 1 Year Later

When the Chicago Blackhawks dealt Brandon Hagel, it was the unofficial beginning of their scorched-earth rebuild. General manager (GM) Kyle Davidson traded the 24-year-old forward to the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 18, 2022, signaling a new dire...

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Lightning Are Stanley Cup Contenders Without a Trade

Teams in the NHL have until 3 p.m. on March 3 to make trades to bolster their chances of making the playoffs and winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The weeks leading up to this deadline have already seen some deals take place, as well...

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Lightning Want Horvat, Even if They Can’t Afford Him

With the flat cap bearing down on teams across the NHL, the 2023 Trade Deadline in March is going to be an interesting one, as there will be two opposing forces fighting against each other. First, there will be a lot of bad teams loo...

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Blackhawks’ 10 Defining Moments of 2022

2022 was crazy for the Chicago Blackhawks. The club entered the year off an ugly 2021 due to their sexual assault scandal and a poor start to the 2021-22 season despite looking poised to contend. While a year later, the on-ice results are worse, the Blackhawks ...

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Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: Hagel, Cooper & More

Welcome to this edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stock Up and Stock Down, a weekly column detailing the highs and lows of the team’s performance. This column will take a short break over the holidays and resume in early January 2023.

The Tampa Bay Lightning continue...

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