Once again, glory is within reach. It beckons and it teases. For a franchise with perpetual Stanley Cup aspirations, the allure is hard to ignore. And all it costs is the future. So, are you in? By now,

The Lightning (36-21-4) have gone from a team battling for a wild card spot in the Eastern Conference to pushing toward the top of the Atlantic Division by going 10-1-1 in their past 12 games heading into their game against the Buffalo Sabres at Amalie Arena on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; ESPN).

The NHL Trade Deadline has passed, and the arms race is complete. After assessing all the upgrades made league-wide…Who is your updated Stanley Cup pick, post deadline?

It’s another busy day in the NHL, with nine games on tap for Thursday night. The 2024-25 Stanley Cup Playoffs start on April 20th, so these final 19-21 games for most teams in the league take on much higher stakes.

The Tampa Bay Lightning hope to pick up where they left off before the 4 Nations Face-Off break. Winners of an Eastern Conference-high four straight games, the Lightning will re-start their season on Sunday evening by hosting the Seattle Kraken.

In taking all three games of their homestand coming out of the 4 Nations Faceoff break, the Lightning (34-20-4, 72 points, third place in the Atlantic) have outscored opponents 11-2. Over their current nine-game point streak dating to Jan. 30, they’ve held opponents to an average of 1.67 goals a game.

The run of dominance from elite goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy in net out to everyone else has put the rest of the league on notice that the Lightning — now four years removed from the second of their back-to-back Stanley Cup championships — have all ...

Riding an eight-game winning streak, the Tampa Bay Lightning look like they're back in championship form, and so does star goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy. The Ru

After advancing to back-to-back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals between 2020-22 -- and winning two of them -- the Lightning are going all in again.

Aleksander Barkov scored twice in the second period, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 27 shots, and the Florida Panthers beat their in-state rival Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Monday night. The defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers won their fourth straight game,