Tampa Bay Lightning Hold Heads High Following Season Of ‘110 Percent Buy-In’
The post Tampa Bay Lightning Hold Heads High Following Season Of ‘110 Percent Buy-In’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. SUNRISE, FL – Victor Hedman congratulates goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning … More after the 5-1 win against the Florida Panthers after Game Three of the First Round of the 2025 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Amerant Bank Arena on April 26, 2025 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images) Getty Images Victor Hedman had the captain’s ‘C’ sown on his jersey prior to the preseason. Not that serving as a leader, visually or otherwise, was anything new. After all, the towering Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman had been a pillar in the room for the first 15 years of a career that will see the two-time Stanley Cup winner enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Though Hedman’s first season as captain, a role he took on after Steven Stamkos left the club via free agency, concluded with an opening-round playoff defeat to the Florida Panthers for the second straight spring, Tampa Bay was unwavering in its commitment to the lightning bolt on the front of each player’s jersey. The examples established by No. 77 were a large reason why. “This group picked each other up all of the time, and Victor was a big part of that, especially in his first year as captain and taking over for an icon here,” said coach Jon Cooper, during an end-of-season media session at Amalie Arena on May 2. “His leadership and Ryan (McDonagh), (Nikita) Kucherov and (Brandon) Hagel, you go down the line of guys that were inclusive as a team. There weren’t cliques or any of the stuff that went on that I have seen in years past. That was not this group. That is why we had the season we did, and I cannot say enough great things about the guys.” Hedman, in a…
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SUNRISE, FL – Victor Hedman congratulates goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning … More after the 5-1 win against the Florida Panthers after Game Three of the First Round of the 2025 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Amerant Bank Arena on April 26, 2025 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images) Getty Images Victor Hedman had the captain’s ‘C’ sown on his jersey prior to the preseason. Not that serving as a leader, visually or otherwise, was anything new. After all, the towering Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman had been a pillar in the room for the first 15 years of a career that will see the two-time Stanley Cup winner enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Though Hedman’s first season as captain, a role he took on after Steven Stamkos left the club via free agency, concluded with an opening-round playoff defeat to the Florida Panthers for the second straight spring, Tampa Bay was unwavering in its commitment to the lightning bolt on the front of each player’s jersey. The examples established by No. 77 were a large reason why. “This group picked each other up all of the time, and Victor was a big part of that, especially in his first year as captain and taking over for an icon here,” said coach Jon Cooper, during an end-of-season media session at Amalie Arena on May 2. “His leadership and Ryan (McDonagh), (Nikita) Kucherov and (Brandon) Hagel, you go down the line of guys that were inclusive as a team. There weren’t cliques or any of the stuff that went on that I have seen in years past. That was not this group. That is why we had the season we did, and I cannot say enough great things about the guys.” Hedman, in a…
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