D. Frederick Cook is an aspiring novelist and a lifelong hockey fanatic. He is Bolts by the Bay's resident Canadian, operating out of New Brunswick, where he is bombarded daily by updates on Canadian teams by multiple sources. He might well be Canada's only Tampa Bay Lightning fan, and as such, risks bodily harm in most sports-related conversations and at all social gatherings. Go Bolts.
Thoughts and ramblings… The Lightning were an overhauled team coming into the new season, and after game #1, they looked like exactly that: an overhauled team. Gone were the defensive miscues…Read More
With the beginning of the 2013 NHL season literally just hours away, I thought it would be fun to make some predictions. Not just predictions – bold predictions. No. Not just bold predictions…Read More
And now we come to the most visible, if not the worst, of last year’s Lightning weaknesses – the goaltending. The Lightning gave up a league worst 278 goals last season. The blame for that…Read More
As we get deeper into training camp, more and more news trickles out and the roster seems to be shaping up. We can, at this point, make a pretty good guess at what the opening night roster will look…Read More
It came as a surprise when the Lightning’s training camp roster was released and one expected attendee was left off the list – Brett Connolly. Connolly went through some expected growing pains…Read More
After last time, where I previewed the Lightning’s expected defensive lineup, we now to shift…Read More
Let me be blunt: The Tampa Bay Lightning’s defense was abysmal last year. It teamed up with…Read More
As 2012 draws to a close, we still don’t have hockey, but we can afford a bit of guarded optimism…Read More
What we can be reasonably sure of, at this point, is there will be NHL hockey on January 19. The question…Read More
Another round of optimism about the prospect of an NHL season crashed and burned yesterday, spectacularly,…Read More
With the Lightning’s past filled with memories of last season’s blunders, and the Lightning’s…Read More
The Syracuse Crunch have rattled off three wins in three nights for the second time this year. Over…Read More
With the NHL lockout putting the Bolts’ present on hold, it’s only natural that more eyes…Read More
With no start to the season in sight, and with future cancellations looming ever large in our minds,…Read More
In any conversation about what went wrong for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2011-2012 season, all the…Read More
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