Hounding report: Tampa Bay Lightning II

The Tampa Bay Lightning recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its 2004 Stanley Cup championship season, hosting a few days of events. During one such event, called Sunday with Stanley, members of the Cup-winning team gathered on a Sunday, making themselves available for photos and autographs.

So, of course, we took full advantage of the opportunity. 

What we didn't do, though, was stand in the very long line to get autographs or take a picture with the Cup. Instead, we waited for the players to mill about the plaza in front of  the Tampa Bay Times Forum.

Well, really, it was just Colin, who had five members of the squad sign this puck commemorating the event: captain Dave Andreychuk, Jassen Cullimore, Ben Clymer, Brad Lukowich and Freddie Modin. I'm thinking, too, he may have set a personal record for number of autographs on a single puck.

The following Monday, when the Lightning played the Vancouver Canucks, the team gave away replica 2004 Stanley Cup Champions rings to the more than 19,000 people attending the game.

One of the fans, a nice gentleman who owns a waterfront condo managed by The Missus, thought Colin would like a ring. The man was right. Colin loved it.

Reunited, sort of

Yeah, I know I've shown this photo, or something very similar before, but as I'm recounting our 2013-14 hockey-hounding campaign, this trio of pucks, from the Tampa Bay Lightning's one-time Big Three, is a definite highlight of the season.

What I like about it was that we snagged Philadelphia's Vinny Lecavalier, the Rangers' Brad Richards and Tampa Bay's Marty St. Louis all within 48 to 50 hours on three separate hounding adventures during Colin's Thanksgiving break.

Hounding report: Tampa Bay Lightning

I'm quickly learning, much to my dismay, that waiting so long to share our hounding-hockey adventures may have created some unintended consequences. Take the Tampa Bay Lightning, for example.

Well, I have these photos as proof-positive that Lightning players signed these items for us during Colin's Thanksgiving break from school, I couldn't remember which day we hounded them.

Fortunately, a little research around this Marty St. Louis 1,000 games puck helped me figure out that we pulled double duty on the day the Philadelphia Flyers came to town in late November.

Bolts players signed 23 items for us (really, Colin got all of them) that day, adding to a nice haul from the Flyers.

Signing the cards, shown above, were:

Top row: Eric Brewer, Victor Hedman and Anders Lindback; and
Bottom row: Teddy Purcell, Tom Pyatt and Nate Thompson.

Two Lightning players signed four cards each for us:

B.J. Crombeen, and 

Sami Salo.

Finally, Alex Killorn added this puck: