After much deliberation and arguing that resulted in three civil wars and a paper cut, Raw Charge has awarded Tampa Bay Lightning’s Yanni Gourde with Player of the Month honors for the month of January. [Raw Charge]
With the top line of Nikita Kucherov, Vladislav Namestnikov and Steven Stamkos struggling to find the back of the net a bit (6 goals combined) the Lightning needed someone to step up and find a way to put the puck in the net. Enter Yanni Gourde. Not only did he score six times, three of those goals were game-winners.