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Normal Goaltender Development, pt 2: Juniors vs NCAA vs professional 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Rather than clog up this post with how I determined what went into what category-the dreary rules I made for myself when trying to make sense of this data-I've placed that in a post I'm calling my Glo...
Normal Goaltender Development: Glossary and Notes 26 Aug 2013 | 12:49 am
The following explain the rules I set myself as I sorted 104 individual careers into categories for analysis. It tells what I mean by certain terms, how I decided what went into what category, and how...
Normal Goaltender Development: Introduction 24 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
The near-constant talk about Lightning goaltending prospect Andrey Vasilevskiy as "the goalie of the future" for Tampa Bay got me thinking. What exactly is "normal" development for a goaltender? That ...
Top 25 Under 25: Near Misses 23 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
With great depth comes great responsibil--wait a minute, that's not right. No, with great depth comes a few great players who fall out of your top 25 rankings series on Raw Charge. Of the players re...
Lightning to participate in rookie tournament in Coral Springs 23 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
The Tampa Bay Lightning announced it will be participating in a rookie tournament in Coral Springs along with three other NHL teams. The tournament will be held at the Saveology IcePlex, the practice ...
AHL releases the 2013-14 schedule 23 Aug 2013 | 12:57 am
The AHL schedule was released today, and with that release came the thing all AHL fans have been waiting for: that glorious list of game dates for their respective teams. For the Syracuse Crunch, thi...
TampaCuse adds new CHL affiliate 22 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
It's been announced that the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Syracuse Crunch have a new partner to work with! The Brampton Beast is the new CHL affiliate of TampaCuse. They will share development duties f...
Question of the Week: Tampa Bay Time Machine 21 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
Like every summer, I've spent the last several weeks locked in the vault of my mountain-top castle, chasing peyote buttons with a home-made whiskey-gin that I call "whin," and spending hundreds of sle...
Jonathan Drouin and the puzzle of the 2013-14 Tampa Bay Lightning lineup 20 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
It's pretty straightforward that the Lightning grabbed one of the top rated prospects from the 2013 NHL draft in Halifax Mooseheads wing Jonathan Drouin. With some talking about him being the eventua...
Top 25 Under 25: An Introduction 20 Aug 2013 | 02:18 am
What began as idle musing by our fearless leader at Raw Charge, John Fontana, has become a full-time project for me. A "Top 25 Under 25" series is a mainstay at other SB Nation sites, but is something...
