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| Lightning sign Lukowich, Roy |
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07/15/2003 |
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| Tampa, FL (MySportsbook) - The Tampa Bay Lightning signed defenseman Brad Lukowich and forward Andre Roy to multi-year contracts on Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lukowich had one goal and 14 assists in 70 games last season for the Lightning after being acquired from Dallas before the 2002-03 campaign. Roy racked up 119 penalty minutes in 62 games, while collecting 10 goals and seven assists. Meanwhile, the team also signed right wing Evgeni Artukhin to a three-year rookie contract and re-signed u |
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| Flyers and Pitkanen finally agree |
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07/15/2003 |
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| act on Tuesday . The 6-foot-3, 202-pounder was selected by the Flyers in the first round (fourth overall) of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. Philadelphia sent forward Ruslan Fedotenko and two second-round picks (34th and 52nd overall) in that draft to the Tampa Bay Lightning for the pick they used to select Pitkanen. "Joni is probably rated as the best young defenseman outside the NHL," said Flyers general manager Bob Clarke. "We think that he has a chance to be a terrific player for us. We are hopeful that he can make |
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| Hull re-signs with Senators |
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07/03/2003 |
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| ered three goals and eight assists in 70 regular season games this past season for Ottawa, which lost to New Jersey on a late goal in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals this past spring. Hull played in his 800th career game against the Florida Panthers on January 22. The veteran right wing, an unrestricted free agent prior to the signing, has totaled 124 goals and 137 assists in 830 games with the New York Rangers, Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, and the Carolina Hurricanes' organization. |
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| Lightning ink Finnish League center |
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06/19/2003 |
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| Tampa, FL (MySportsbook) - The Tampa Bay Lightning signed free-agent center Eric Perrin from the Finnish Elite League Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Perrin played at the University of Vermont in the mid 1990's with current Lightning All-Star Martin St. Louis, who helped convince Tampa Bay GM Jay Feaster to sign Perrin. "When I had my exit interview with Martin St. Louis earlier this year, he asked if he could tell me about his college teammate, Eric Perrin," Feaster said. Playing in Finland for |
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| Lemaire wins Jack Adams Award |
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06/12/2003 |
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| k Adams Award as the coach of the year in the National Hockey League. Lemaire, who also won the award in 1994 with the Devils, led the Wild to a 22-point improvement over the 2001-2002 season. The other finalists were Ottawa's Jacques Martin and the Tampa Bay Lightning's John Tortorella. Martin won the award in 1999 and was an Adams finalist for the fourth time in seven years. His Senators won the Presidents' Trophy as the NHL's top regular-season club. Tortorella was a first-time nominee and led the Lightning to |
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| Lightning sign center Soucy |
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05/30/2003 |
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| Tampa, FL (MySportsbook) - The Tampa Bay Lightning signed 2001 draft pick Jean-Francois Soucy on Friday to a three-year contract. Terms of the deal were not released. Soucy, who was picked in the eighth round of the 2001 NHL entry draft, competed in just one pre-season game with Tampa Bay last season. He recorded a hat trick in an 8-1 win against Atlanta on September 20. Last season, he played in 65 games with Montreal of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, setting career-highs with 24 goals, 31 assists, 55 |
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| New Jersey Devils Team Report - May 22nd |
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05/22/2003 |
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| mayer's helper last night was his 10th of this postseason. The Devils are making their third conference finals appearance in four years, including a Stanley Cup championship in 2000. They defeated the Boston Bruins, 4-1, in the opening round and the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-1, in the semifinals to reach this point. This is the second meeting with the Senators in the postseason. Ottawa captured the 1998 opening round series four-games-to-two, including victories in all three contests on home ice. This matchup marks t |
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| New Jersey Devils Team Report - May 16th |
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05/16/2003 |
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| ing leader, has just one score in his 13 playoff contests. The Devils are making their third conference finals appearance in four years, including a Stanley Cup championship in 2000. They defeated the Boston Bruins, 4-1, in the opening round and the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-1, in the semifinals to reach this point. This is the second meeting with the Senators in the postseason. Ottawa captured the 1998 opening round series four-games-to-two, including victories in all three contests on home ice. This matchup marks t |
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| Old blood meets new blood in East finals |
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05/10/2003 |
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| sual this postseason, as they've disposed of two overmatched clubs in five games apiece. First came the Boston Bruins, whose top guns, Joe Thornton and Glen Murray, were completely minimized by Jersey with the exception of one game. Then the upstart Tampa Bay Lightning were presented as a challenge, and the Devs quickly made them realize they weren't quite worthy yet. Against the Lightning, the Devils needed two overtime wins, including a triple-OT affair in Game 5, to take the series but they never really lacked |
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| Devils' turn to dance again |
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05/05/2003 |
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| al this postseason, all but erasing memories of last year's quarterfinal exit with a trip to its third conference final in four years. The Devils glided through the first and second rounds by disposing of two overmatched teams, the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning, in five games apiece. And New Jersey has enjoyed success this spring with the same formula that has worked for what seems like ages - defense, defense and a little more defense. While Larry Robinson injected a potent attack into the mix when he was |
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