Dan Boyle sat at his locker Monday after Lightning practice, surrounded by reporters and cameras, skates still safely on his feet, and slowly unwound the tape he wore on his surgically repaired left wrist. ...more

January 29, 2008

NHL Power Rankings ...more

January 27, 2008

For the next three days, 29 rinks around the National Hockey League will go dark. Sheets of ice will remain cold and clean. Skate sharpeners will go silent. ...more

January 26, 2008

This season has been one long reality check for the Lightning, interrupted only occasionally by bits of hope. Like most teams do, the Bolts grab on to the hope and dismiss the reality checks with the argument, "yeah, but better days are just around the corner." ...more

January 26, 2008

How Tampa Bay Ended Up Last In The East At The Break 1. The plight of Dan Boyle this season just about sums up how things have gone for Tampa Bay in the first half. From the moment an errant skate fell off its hook above Boyle's locker in September and severed three tendons in his wrist, the team must have felt like it has had a black cloud following it around. Boyle's absence was absorbed for the first quarter of the season, but as the season wore on, Tampa Bay's young core of defensemen wore down. ...more

January 26, 2008

Coach John Tortorella informed the assembled media Thursday morning that injured D Dan Boyle would not be playing in his first game since Nov. 3. By the mid-part of the afternoon, that all changed following a checkup with the doctor who performed a second operation on Boyle's left wrist. ...more

January 25, 2008

Once again, just as the Lightning began to generate the flicker of a belief that the worst might be behind them, they stumbled badly Thursday in an 8-4 loss to the Ottawa Senators at the St. Pete Times Forum. ...more

January 25, 2008

Injured D Dan Boyle flew to Baltimore on Friday morning for a checkup with Thomas Graham, the hand specialist who performed the second surgery on Boyle's left wrist in November. The team did not release much information on Boyle's visit, but assuming he has no setbacks, he could be cleared to return before next weekend's All-Star break. ...more

January 19, 2008

Lightning D Filip Kuba played in his 500th NHL game Saturday against the Panthers. ...more

January 13, 2008

Toward the end of Tuesday's morning pregame skate, the door leading to the Lightning locker room opened and D Dan Boyle came through and skated out onto the ice Air Canada Centre ice. ...more

January 2, 2008