Victor Hedman News & Stories

Sean Shapiro and Cam Robinson combine to look at who will be in and who will be out at the best-on-best competition in February.

JFresh ranks the 20 best defencemen going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

The Lightning are winning a lot all of a sudden, and maybe more important, the goalie is up to his old tricks.

It's early, and the Tampa Bay Lightning have the talent to turn things around in an instant, but there are some concerning signs with this team.

JFresh continues his look at the NHL's top players by looking at the defenceman.

Cam Robinson gives out his awards for the fantasy hockey season.

JFresh previews the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning's first-round series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

Sean Shapiro looks at the 3-time defending Eastern Conference champions and how they haven't gone anywhere yet.

What hot streaks to catch, which ones to avoid, and which cold streaks you should actually read into.

JFresh analyzes the top 20 defencemen in the NHL entering the 2022-23 NHL season.

JFresh breaks down the Eastern Conference Final Series between the Rangers and Lightning.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at this year's three finalists for the Norris Trophy, the tremendous seasons they had respectively, and whether the voters got it right.

In the last big piece of news before the start of the playoffs, the Red Wings are going in a different direction behind the bench. The road they take will be critical.

The Panthers and the Lightning are really good but there's a single game this weekend that's the opposite of that. It's the final week of the NHL season and EP Rinkside senior columnist has his three stars.

The World Juniors Coaches Q&A Series returns for the 2022 World Juniors in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, kicking off with this one-on-one by Julie Robenhymer with Swedish head coach Tomas Montén.

The EP Rinkside 3 Stars returns this week with a look at an on-the-nose metaphor for the Philadelphia Flyers season, the Arizona Coyotes rent strike, and the king staying the king in Tampa Bay.

JFresh ranks the top 30 defencemen going into the 2021-22 NHL season.

Ryan Lambert looks at five candidates for the James Norris trophy in the 2021-22 NHL season, awarded to the league's best defenceman.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how effectively defencemen defended their blueline this past postseason.

It looks like the Tampa Bay Lightning are destined for their second Stanley Cup win in nine months. Enjoy it. Celebrate it. Relish it for all its worth, while you still can. They're the subject of this week's "What we Learned," by Ryan Lambert.

JFresh breaks down the battle for the Stanley Cup between the pesky cinderella Canadiens and the defending champion Lightning

JFresh breaks down the numbers for the Conference Final rematch between the reigning champion Lightning and the king-slaying Islanders

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes, en route to winning the Central Division and advancing to the final four.

As the finalists for each of the major individual awards that we care about get announced over the next couple of weeks, we'll be sorting through where the voters got it right and where they went wrong. This time we'll take a look at the Norris Trophy nominees.

The Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Lightning start their Central Division showdown today, and JFresh crunches the numbers to set the stage for this battle between Stanley Cup contenders.

Dimitri Filipovic breaks down the tape and the numbers to look at how the Tampa Bay Lightning and Carolina Hurricanes locked up their Round 1 series.

The subject of Cam Robinson's newest Fantasy Focus piece is Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Dougie Hamilton. Robinson makes the case for Hamilton as one of the league's premier defenders, but questions about his future linger.

The Tampa Bay Lightning have taken their first big swing of the 2020-21 trade deadline, prying defenceman David Savard from the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Better late than never, right? We think so, so we've got a weekend edition of Doerrie's Deets, in which Rachel Doerrie offers her take on some of the latest happenings in the hockey world, with insider bits, scouts know-how, and a little of everything in-between.

J.D. Burke polled his team of writers for their mid-season NHL awards winners, and he's revealing the results in this article on Rinkside.

There were some notable performances by players on the ice, but what an official got caught saying into a hot mic stole the show. Dimitri Filipovic investigates in Tuesday night's 3 Stars.

Dimitri Filipovic checks in with the debut of a new monthly feature on Rinkside, one aptly named 'NHL Trophy Watch,' in which he looks at the NHL award frontrunners as the carries on.

JFresh takes an early look at what Team Sweden might look like if the NHL returns to the Olympics next year.

The Tampa Bay Lightning will unveil its 2020 Stanley Cup Championship banner in unique fashion.

TAMPA (EP Rinkside) Of course, you don’t have to look very hard to find bright spots on the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning. They have the league’s leading scorer and Hart...