In the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2-0 win over the Arizona Coyotes on March 19, goaltender Ben Bishop stopped all 32 Coyotes’ shots to record his 15th shutout as a member of the Lightning since coming over from the Ottawa Senators in a trade during the 2013-14 season.
Bishop last played for the national team at the 2013 IIHF World Championship. Schneider has never played for the national team. He last represented the U.S. in the 2006 IIHF World Junior Championship.
He was born in Denver, but grew up in St. Louis before starring in the crease for the University of Maine, and then made his NHL debut with the team he grew up rooting for as you’ll find out below. With Bishop in-goal, the Lightning are now set for the foreseeable future to be a perennial contender in the Eastern Conference as GM Steve Yzerman continues to build a winning team in the Sunshine State.
There is no doubt Bishop, named to his first career All-Star game for his outstanding play during the first half of the 2015-16 NHL regular season, is in the conversation for the Vezina Trophy, an award given to the leagues top goaltender at the end of the season.
Given Bishop’s 8-0-3 record against his former team, and the fact another ex-Senators goaltender, Robin Lehner, earned his first win of the season recently at Ottawa’s expense, it had to come as a major relief in the CTC corridors that Bishop backup Andrei Vasilevskiy got the start.
Ben Bishop made 24 saves to get 100th win with Tampa Bay, Nikita Kucherov scored his 21st goal, and the Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 on Wednesday night.
The National Hockey League announced today the full roster of players as well as the head coaches for the 2016 Honda NHL All-Star celebration, which will be held Jan. 30-31 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Can you imagine if he wasn’t?” coach Jon Cooper asked Friday of Ben Bishop. “Probably be a little nerve-wracking.”
The offensively challenged Lightning might be in the league’s basement if not for Bishop, 29, perhaps playing the best hockey of his career.
Tampa Bay counters with Ben Bishop. The Lightning’s No. 1 stopped 30-of-31 shots against in his last outing, and has been a straight-up monster of late, even if the results in win/losses haven’t necessarily been there.
Steven Stamkos scored a go-ahead power-play goal in the third period, Ben Bishop stopped a personal five-game losing streak and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Thursday night.
