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Tampa Bay Lightning Daily Headlines: Defeating The Bruins, Crunch Win, And More

By Tasha St. Pierre

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While the Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Florida Panthers at the Amalie Arena, we take a look a the Top Headlines around the National Hockey League today.

The Tampa Bay Lightning has had a heck of a week, which culminated on Sunday night with a spectacular win over captain Zdeno Chara and the Boston Bruins. Now, the Lightning must turn their attention back to the Sunshine state.

Tonight, the Tampa Bay Lightning open the doors to the Amalie Arena to play host to their in-state rival, the Florida Panthers, in the fifth game of their six-game home stand that finishes off on Thursday night against the Nashville Predators.

The Bolts are ultimately playing for positioning in the post season at this point in the season, but that doesn’t make any of the available points in front of them any less valuable. A team’s positioning entering the post season can have much more influence than you can imagine into how the post season kicks off for a team.

In just a few more minutes, we’ll have a break in the action between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers. While we agonize over what to do for the 20 minutes of intermission between hockey, let’s take a look at some of the top headlines from here in the Bolts Nation and around the National Hockey League today.

There has been one giant elephant in the room for the Tampa Bay Lightning all season long, and that has been their sheer inability to come up on top against the “big, bad” Boston Bruins. It may have taken them 10 long games and almost two years’ time, but the Lightning finally overcame that beast. Now, Tampa Bay Lightning Beat Writer Bryan Burns takes a look at three things we learned from that win. [Tampa Bay Lightning]

As most of you know by now, the Tampa Bay Lightning’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch, are well on their way to making a run at the Calder Cup this season as they prepare for their post season to kick off. On Sunday night, the Crunch played an all-around solid hockey game to defeat the Springfield Falcons 4-1. Here’s a look at the Crunch’s big win. [Syracuse Crunch]

Over the course of the last three seasons, the Stanley Cup has been dominated by the Western Conference. In 2012, it was the Los Angeles Kings who brought the Cup home. The next year, the Chicago Blackhawks would bring the cup back to the Madhouse on Madison. In 2014, the Kings would reclaim the Cup once again. The question on top of everyone’s mind right now is whether or not this is the year the Eastern Conference steps up and brings the Cup home? [Bleacher Report]

Now that the 2014-15 season is quickly coming to a close, there are teams (mostly those with no hopes of post season play) have turned their attention to the 2015 NHL Draft. There are a number of players who will be vying to be the Number One Overall Pick. The most easily recognizable of those names is Connor McDavid, but there is another name we may hear on the big day; Jack Eichel. The people over at Cardiac Cane take a look at the young future superstar and what he could mean to a team next season. [Cardiac Cane]

Veteran right wing Ilya Kovalchuk spent 11 seasons in the National Hockey League before he decided to exile himself back to Russia and the Kontinental Hockey League. Now, just two seasons later it seems as if he is contemplating a return to the National Hockey League. The question now becomes where would he fit in after being gone for so long? [Too Many Men on the Site]

There is still plenty of hockey to play before we know whether or not the Tampa Bay Lightning will be able to send the Florida Panthers back to Sunrise tonight without the two points that they need so very much. The good news is that we have faith in our boys in blue that they will be able to get the job done.

Are you prepared to Be The Thunder for the final 20 minutes of hockey at the Amalie Arena? We know we are!

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