Zach Bogosian on “fighting” with his three year old son, Hunter, yesterday at Amalie Arena: “He asked me if I wanted to fight so he wanted to do it. It was fun. You remember that age, what it was like, and to see him loving the game as much as I do it's like a proud dad moment”
Maroon: “It’s never fun to hear that. It’s kind of embarrassing for me…we’re here to turn something negative into a positive…it is what it is. It’s over. It’s in the past. Hopefully, we made an impact in the Tampa community and around the world.”
He has already raised $50,000.
Kavon Willingham will be a senior at Blake High School next year. He is a member of the football team and, now, thanks to
@RobGronkowski
and the
@Buccaneers
, Willingham and his teammates will have the equipment they need to compete on the field
this response is making my day
CONFESSION: I did not pay anything/anyone involved in that ceremony except for Carter Stamkos, who was watching himself on the jumbotron the entire time 😆
Jon Cooper on his shirt: “Ronde Barber. A great friend, a great friend of the program, and he's on the shortlist to get into the Hall of Fame and it's more than overdue and so showing the support for my guy”
@TBLightning
@Buccaneers
@rondebarber
I shared the microphone with our
#Bolts
“Junior Reporter” today and she stole the show with her intensity and her delivery. I was impressed!!
a memorable moment - she asked
@patmaroon
if he believes in Bigfoot and, before he could answer her, Stamkos shouted, “He is Bigfoot!!”
I still do not think I have the proper words so, in short summary, THANK YOU to everyone who has followed along as I have followed this team. It has been the BEST journey and I am already looking forward to next season !!
#GoBolts
IT’S HAPPENING — the floor cooling process has started here
@AmalieArena
!! When the concrete floor reaches the correct temperature, the
@TBLightning
ice crew will start to add the layers of water and, eventually, we will have an ice rink
HE DID IT !!!! Nikita Kucherov is only the fifth player in NHL history to record 100 assists in a single season. He is also the first winger to do it.
He joins Bobby Orr (1970-1971), Mario Lemieux (1988-1989), Wayne Gretzky, who hit the 100 assist mark 11 times in his career,…
Sergachev on when he found out he would be able to play in Game 4: "I found out yesterday. The docs cleared me and it was the coach's decision so I stayed at the rink a little longer waiting for coach to say yes or no and he said yes. I got very excited and, honestly, I couldn't…
Mikhail Sergachev is on the ice for the
#Bolts
practice two months after having surgery to stabilize fractures in both his tibia and his fibula in his left leg
Paul on living in Tampa: "I love it here. I cannot say enough good things about Tampa. I knew Tampa was a great spot and the fans are great ... driving to the rink, all of the restaurants have the signs that say, 'Go Bolts' and the houses have them too"
stories you may have missed from the game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday:
Brandon Hagel was raised in Morinville, which is about 45 minutes north of Edmonton. His father, Dwayne, told me about 200 family members and friends went to the game…
A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT:
President Joe Biden has invited the Tampa Bay Lightning to the White House on Monday to celebrate their 2020 and 2021 Stanley Cup championships❕
#GoBolts
alright alright, I am talking to you,
#Bolts
fans … are you prepared for the endless updates !?! We are currently on the bus to the White House.
I can also confirm that, yes, Mathieu Joseph is here❕
#GoBolts
Brandon Hagel 🤝🏼 Doug Glatt from “Goon” aka Dylan Peterson from Orlando
Peterson tells me this moment was a once in a lifetime moment for him and he had plans to go to the team store at some point tonight to swap his Glatt jersey for a Hagel jersey.
“Nothing like that is ever…
Cooper w/ THE quote: “We're standing here on the cusp of greatness and why the hell wouldn't we charge through that door. Let's go get this. Let's go attack this. If fear is the motivator then so be it but I don't want there being any excuse if it doesn't go well for us tonight”
the entire
#Bolts
team - players, coaches, and staff - is celebrating their captain and his 1000th career game by rocking these “Seen Stamkos!” t-shirts … it was a surprise so I am anxious to hear how Stamkos reacted to it
#GoBolts
UPDATE:
The Stanley Cup tour starts tomorrow. The cup is currently traveling from Montreal to Robbinsville, NJ to spend the day with Ross Colton, who scored the only goal in Game 5.
Then, it will visit Kevin Shattenkirk on Saturday. He will finally have his day with the cup!!
a special visitor in the
#Bolts
locker room today: Skyla Almond will be the “Honorary Captain” for the game tonight. She was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma on December 9, 2021 and, after undergoing 14 cycles of chemo, she rang the bell in August
PS: 91 is her favorite player
Declan Carlile on having his parents and his girlfriend fly from Michigan to Minnesota this afternoon to be in the stands for his NHL debut: “It was awesome. They booked it. They didn't know obviously. We didn't know and my dad's not wanting to do that stuff because he doesn't…
Raddysh on what he saw on his first postseason goal: "Not much. After it went in, I kind of blacked out. I saw Kuch's face and to see him smiling like that and how happy he was, I will probably frame that picture"
for reference from
@TBLightning
⬇️
Can you imagine receiving this video from the head coach of your favorite team?
@HannaHillhockey
, a graduate of Emerson College, stood outside of the players lot at Amalie Arena to invite Jon Cooper to her graduation party. He could not be there but he did not forget about her …
ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF RECHARGE …
Pat Maroon is home and, within minutes of arriving in St. Louis, he found himself here at a youth hockey game cheering on his son. Can you tell which of his
#Bolts
teammates joined him?
Nikita Kucherov on what 100 assists means to him: "A special moment. Thanks to my teammates and the coaching staff for putting me in a position to have success and fortunate to be with great players, to play with great players, and it is a good moment"
Emil Lilleberg, who will be skating in his eleventh NHL game tonight, has some special people in the stands. He tells me his brother, his dad, his grandfather, and his uncle are here from Norway. It will be their first time seeing him play in person in an NHL game.
Ryan McDonagh ... I certainly cannot express what he meant to this team, this coaching staff, this organization in one tweet but he will certainly be missed by everyone
Mikhail Sergachev on his return: "It felt great. The fans were very loud for me and I appreciate that a lot. I felt like a hockey player again. It was unbelievable. Thank you."
I am beyond happy for him and his teammates.
that room filled with
#Bolts
players was a tough room to be in…
Stamkos fielded the most questions
McDonagh broke when he talked about his captain and his leadership
Maroon cried through the majority of the interview
Patty Maroon on Evander Kane slicing his wrist on his skate blade: “That's a scary situation. I hope he's OK. When you look down and you see that much blood, you know that there's something wrong … the boys are really worried about him so we're all thinking about Evander”
STEVEN STAMKOS WITH HIS 500TH CAREER GOAL !!!! He is the 47th player in NHL history to reach this milestone and the 23rd player to do it with a single franchise. He joins Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin as the only *active* players with 500 career goals.
#GoBolts
Brandon Hagel, who will be the star of our next
#BoltsBeginnings
, shared his family with us yesterday. We had the pleasure of meeting his nephew and his niece and they adore him !!
TONIGHT: Steven Stamkos will skate in his 1,000th career NHL game becoming the second player in Tampa Bay Lightning franchise history to do it with this team
#GoBolts
the
#Bolts
captain, Steven Stamkos, made 19-year-old Jordan Gordon’s dream come true today
Jordan, who has a disability, is a huge
#Bolts
fan and his favorite player is 9️⃣1️⃣ so the Sunshine Foundation of Canada connected them
Jordan told me he had been “counting down the days”
a friendly reminder …
Jon Cooper will serve as an analyst on TNT tonight for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final between the Florida Panthers and the Carolina Hurricanes
(as if I needed another reason to tune in)
the sweetest news from a first time father:
Jonas Johansson tells me he and his wife welcomed their first child into the world one week ago today. Flora was born on Monday, February 5th at 3:33 in the afternoon. Jonas said it was an amazing feeling holding her for the very…
Raddysh on who he called first: "My girlfriend was with me...I called my parents. I called my brother...Ross [Colton] and I always talk almost every day so, when I got called up, he was one of the first guys I called. He FaceTimed me right away and he was excited"
BESTIE ALERT
UPDATE: During that first period, the
#Bolts
announced that the employees here, myself + 243 of my coworkers, are the Community Heroes of the game. We'll be able to donate $5,000 to a local charity of our choosing thanks to Mr. Jeffrey Vinik. That donation totals $1.22 million.
Cole Koepke returns to NHL action for the first time since November 29 of last season and he is wearing a neck guard, the first
#Bolts
player to wear one in a game this season
Brandon Hagel on his relationship with Patty Maroon: “He obviously was one of the first ones to text me and welcome me to the team and probably took me out for a couple of drinks to say the least but, at the end of the day, he is one of the best teammates I have ever had.”
You…
Alex Killorn talking about leaving the Tampa Bay Lightning on NHL Network: "It is definitely bittersweet. I always imagined myself retiring in a Lightning uniform"
one of the teams Erik Cernak previously played for — the K&B Slovakia Stars — is here to watch the
#Bolts
morning skate … they are cheering for every player who walks past them
Cooper on winning 10 consecutive series: "It's remarkable, it's mind-boggling, but, as Pat Maroon says to me, 'Well, Coop, I have won 14,' and, for some reason, I do not think we are going to catch him"
I was driving behind Jon Cooper as he was leaving the airport. He rolled his window down to give the thumbs up to all of the fans waiting there for him and his team. They will be back in their building tomorrow for Game 6.
#GoBolts
Stamkos on his son wondering why he is home: "Carter kind of has a grasp of things now, probably wondering why there is no Stanley Cup somewhere. He has been pretty lucky the last few years but it will be nice to be home"
two of the
#Bolts
players,
@patmaroon
and Corey Perry, visited children at AdventHealth Tampa today … I heard one patient tell them that they made his day 🤍
Jon Cooper on Mikhail Sergachev, who he followed off of the ice and into the tunnel after he was injured in the second period: “In the end, you’ve got your family, your biological family, but these are the people you spend pretty much your whole life with so it goes beyond…
Jon Cooper on Declan Carlile’s NHL debut: “The kid did great. It is a really exciting time for everyone when someone gets to play in their first NHL game but it’s a little bit of a pisser for me because I’ve coached damn near 800 of these games and he’s played in one and we both…