Unlike the last time the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup, it looks like they will get a chance to defend it this time. Maybe when they win their next one, they’ll actually have a full, 82-game season to celebrate their reign at the top of the league.
You have to hand it to the NHL. Most organizations would pick a time other than 8:00pm on the Friday before Christmas Week to release news their consumers having been anxiously waiting for, but the NHL is going NHL. Last night word emerged on social media that the NHL and the NHLPA had come to a “tentative” agreement to have a 56-game season starting on January 13th.