Entering the Christmas break on a five-game win streak, the Tampa Bay Lightning had every reason to feel confident as the team entered its last home stand of the calendar year. However, with Tampa Bay now suffering back-to-back losses – a 2-1 shootout loss to Montreal on Saturday, a 4-3 regulation loss to New York

As a student journalist that aspires to one day work in sports, I’ve spent most of my time these past few years watching various sporting events from the press box. But it was not long ago that I was sitting in the stands of the Tampa Bay Times Forum taking in a hockey game purely