NEWARK, N.J. - Lightning rookie Steven Stamkos scored his 21st goal of the season Friday in New Jersey, tying the franchise rookie record for goals scored in a season set by Brad Richards in 2000-01. Stamkos needs one more in the final four games to break the team record. ...more

April 3, 2009

Lightning D Noah Welch sat out Saturday's game as a healthy scratch. In seven games in a Tampa Bay uniform since being acquired from Florida, Welch has not recorded a point and is a minus-5. ...more

March 22, 2009

Lightning rookie and overall No. 1 pick Steven Stamkos scored his 16th goal of the season in the first period Thursday, the second-most scored by a rookie in franchise history. ...more

March 20, 2009

The Lightning's back line this season has looked more like the front line on a battlefield - as one man goes down, another steps forward to fill the role. ...more

March 19, 2009

March games between expansion cousins Tampa Bay and Ottawa often mean a march to the postseason for one or the other. ...more

March 12, 2009

Before the Lightning hit the ice for a practice in preparation for Sunday's showdown with conference-leading Boston, the team held a meeting to address exactly how the final quarter of the season should be approached. ...more

February 22, 2009

Lightning rookie and overall No. 1 draft pick Steven Stamkos recorded a natural hat trick in Tuesday's game against Chicago, scoring three consecutive goals. Stamkos, who celebrated his 19th birthday on Feb. 12, scored his first goal of the game at 12:58 of the first period when he jumped on puck that caromed off the end boards to the side of the net that he put past Cristobal Huet that tied the game 1-1. Then Stamkos went to work on the power play in the second period. With Craig Adams in the penalty box for a high sticking double-minor at 9:45, Stamkos gave Tampa Bay the lead at 10:28 when he took a down-low, cross-ice feed at the left point from Vinny Prospal and fired a wrist shot to the top of the neat post and over the right shoulder of Huet. Seventy seconds later, with Stamkos back on the left point on the second half of the power play, Stamkos one-timed a Steve Eminger feed past Huet that gave the Lightning a 3-1 lead 11:38 into the second period. Stamkos took to one knee and gave a Tiger Woods-esque fist pump as hats began to rain down from the stands in celebration of the rookie's first career hat trick performance, the first rookie hat trick in franchise history. It is Stamkos' second multi-goal game of the season. The overall No. 1 pick failed early on to live up to the lofty expectations placed on him when Tampa Bay selected him first at the draft in Ottawa back in June. He had four goals through the first 42 games of the season. But since the coaching staff put him onto a strength-training program, which saw him sit out three games as a healthy scratch, Stamkos has improved his play. In his past 13 games, including Tuesday, Stamkos has six goals and five assists. ...more

February 17, 2009

The Washington red light district is officially Green. Washington defenseman Mike Green established an NHL record in the Capitals' 5-1 victory against Tampa Bay on Saturday, scoring a goal in a league record eighth consecutive game. ...more

February 15, 2009

The Lightning's slumping offense needed a jolt. Enter Marty St. Louis. Tampa Bay's No. 1 spark plug led a four-goal, first-period outburst Thursday en route to a 6-4 victory against Toronto. St. Louis had a goal and three assists - all in the opening 20 minutes - to set a career high with four points in a period, which also ties the franchise mark done three other times. The three assists in the first period also tied a franchise record, a mark St. Louis has now reached three times. ...more

February 13, 2009

A 57-year-old Tampa woman won a $1 million prize during the Jan. 31 Powerball drawing, Florida Lottery officials said today. ...more

February 5, 2009