Playoffs-style, from us here at Last Word on Hockey, where the stakes are as high as a Zamboni on rocket fuel.

Just two games on Monday night for the NHL playoffs, with Game 4 in the battle for Florida, and Avs-Stars tied heading into ...

Suddenly, the Tampa Bay Lightning are feeling more alive. Make no mistake -- the Florida Panthers still lead this Eastern Conference first-round series 2-1.

Andrei Vasilevskiy's start to the post-season certainly did not go the way he wanted it to. The Tampa Bay Lightning star ...

You could argue that the tone for the series was set in the first period of Game 1, when Tkachuk took out Kucherov and was ...

My Lightning vs. Panthers picks are targeting Jake Guentzel to stay hot in the best NHL picks on Monday, April 28. The Tampa ...

Remember when the Blueshirts could have nabbed Jake Guentzel and didn't? All he's doing now is powering the Lightning offense ...

Matthew Tkachuk’s smacked that way across the shoulders of Guentzel. There wasn't going to be any discipline for the blow to ...

Only three games into his first playoff run with the Lightning, the 30-year-old forward continues to produce. As he has for ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — Paul Maurice was not pleased with the hit on captain Aleksander Barkov that knocked him out of Game 2 and put his status for Game 3 in question. When asked about containing Tampa Bay ...

Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk reportedly will not receive supplemental discipline for his late-game hit on Lightning forward Jake Guentzel in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series ...

Andrei Vasilevskiy was nearly perfect, stopping 33 of 34 shots, and the Lightning got goals from Jake Guentzel, Brayden Point ...