We understand if our Northern friends haven’t caught on yet, but everyone around Tampa knows the truth. This is a hockey town, home to the best-run and arguably most exciting franchise with the best owner, Jeff Vinik, in the National Hockey League.
Yeah, I’m talking about the Tampa Bay Lightning. And I’m talking about this town. This Sun Belt town, this place where it’s blazing hot with soaking humidity and the only ice we used to care about was inside a margarita glass.
It’s the same place where fans were about to be ejected for throwing their hats onto the ice after Chris Kontos scored his third goal in the Bolts’ inaugural game in 1992 against, oh, what was the team?