Colin Blackwell

Lightning-Panthers Game 1 report card: Refreshed, rejuvenated

We so often expect him to be superhuman that we forget that Nikita Kucherov is subject to the same ills, ailments and maladies as the rest of us. So when the star forward didn’t look quite like himself in the Lightning’s opening-round series against the Maple Leafs, we noticed the obvious (he wasn’t moving his feet) and looked to the usual (he wasn’t engaged, he was frustrated). Though he ...