With the 2018 NHL All-Star weekend set to take over Tampa Bay towards the end of the month, we decided to take a look back at the first time the Lightning hosted the 49th NHL All-Star weekend — 1999.
You can picture it now. The hair, the jerseys, the aesthetic. Today, ‘99 feels vintage. The world operated a little differently twenty years ago, and the trends were sure interesting.
It seems the turn of the century was an odd time for numerous professional sports leagues and their franchises, the NHL being no exception.