The Tampa Bay Lightning are the hottest team in the NHL. They've won eight games in a row sandwiched around the 4 Nations Face-Off and last lost on Feb. 1.

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NHL trade deadline. We put out the call for your trade ideas, and boy did you ever deliver. Nearly 500 (!?) responses — and not one person had Seth Jones going to Florida.

Pregame analysis and predictions of the Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Tampa Bay Lightning NHL game to be played on March 4, 2025 on ESPN.

Aleksander Barkov scored twice in the second period, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 28 shots, and the Florida Panthers beat their in-state rival Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Monday night

The Tampa Bay Lightning, including Brayden Point, will be on the ice Saturday versus the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena, beginning at 12:30 PM ET. There are prop bets for Point available, and we have some stats to help you make good calls.

Brayden had been traded there by the Kings ... He had played more than 700 NHL games by that point, but now was making an 80-mile drive each way between his home in Newport Beach and San Diego.

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