TAMPA - For nearly 30 years, the hockey team that calls Tampa Bay home went by the moniker of Lightning.
That logo has been emblazoned across the chest of the jerseys since 1992. There are Lightning merchandise and paraphernalia nearly everywhere you look around the region - on t-shirts, car flags, hoodies, decals, license plates . . . they're everywhere.
But, by captain's orders and virtue of the manner in which the team this season has grinded, clawed and fought to climb their way to the top of the league standings a week before Christmas, there is a new name by which the team will now be ca...
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