Shortly before Team Canada's Feb. 17 contest against Team Finland, Tampa Bay Lightning bench boss Jon Cooper announced that ...

Goaltender Linus Ullmark appears to be ready to return to the Senators lineup after the team assigned goaltender Leevi Merilainen to the AHL's Belleville Senators on Sunday, according to Bruce ...

His absence Thursday prompted the Lightning to recall Matt Tomkins from AHL Syracuse to ... which would have given Tampa Bay a 5-on-4 advantage and taken the Blackhawks’ best player off the ...

The Lightning called up netminder Matt Tomkins on Friday to replace ailing backup Jonas Johansson (lower body), who is 6-5-1 with a 3.24 goals-against average and an .892 save percentage. With his ...

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned D Declan Carlile to Syracuse (AHL). Reassigned F Gage Goncalves and G Matt Tomkins to Syracuse. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Reassigned C Jacob Quillan to Toronto (AHL).

February 1 - No NHL team is playing better right now than the surging New York Islanders, who will hunt for their seventh straight win when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night.

TAMPA BAY – The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-assigned forward Gage Goncalves and goaltender Matt Tomkins to the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, vice president and general manager ...

Tomkins still served as the understudy, though, because Johansson was unavailable. Perhaps his demotion means Johansson will be fine to dress Saturday versus the Islanders, but Tampa Bay has the ...