Maybe Tampa Bay really is alive in a five-horse race, after all. "We've been beating a dead horse with most of you guys all year about how we are still in it," Lightning center Brad Richards said. "We are. There's a lot of hockey left." ...more

February 9, 2008

Don't look now, but the climb to the top of the Southeast Division has a few less rungs. ...more

February 8, 2008

At some point, a season is lost and it's time to look ahead. Practices, morning skates and even the games themselves become more about evaluation for next season and developing young players than about hanging on by a thread to a no-longer-realistic chance to participate in the postseason. ...more

February 5, 2008

On Jan. 17, 2004, the Lightning recorded a team-record 51 shots on goal in a game against the Florida Panthers. Tampa Bay lost. ...more

January 31, 2008

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

Richard Hamilton scored 32 points and Rasheed Wallace had 13 of his 15 in the first quarter, helping the Detroit Pistons build a big lead that allowed them to coast in a 101-93 win over the Orlando Magic on Friday night. ...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

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

The Lightning left the chilly Canadian air late Saturday to return to warmer climates early Sunday. ...more

January 21, 2008

During Friday morning's meeting with the media, Lightning coach John Tortorella expressed a belief that the team's top guns were going to be ready to play at the top of their game. ...more

January 19, 2008