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She's going to talk about stadium series and how the Tampa Bay Lightning are doing currently and how they kind of changed hockey in the state of Florida.

So DeAndre Liu is coming up right after this.

Deandra Liu joins us here.

She writes for the Hockey News and she's the beat writer for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

This is the Lightning's second outdoor game.

They beat the Predators 3-2 in the 2022 stadium series in Nashville.

That was in front of a lot of people.

That's like 69,000 fans at Nissan Stadium.

I'm completely surprised you didn't say nice.

No, we kind of need you here.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are playing the Boston Bruins.

For the past 25 years, they've been a premier franchise in the NHL, especially since they started winning.

Talk about the Lightning and how they changed the aspect of hockey in Florida throughout the league.

Yeah, well, I think it goes back to probably when John Cooper got hired.

I think we can track the stats on that, kind of turn things around here in Tampa and kicked off, you know, kind of what we see that hockey is here in the state of Florida.

You guys know you're down in South Florida with the success of the Panthers, but the Lightning have been, I think they're an organization that has always kind of done it right, right?

They didn't try to skip steps and kind of slowly built towards it.

Got two Stanley Cups,

went to another Stanley Cup final, wasn't the result they wanted, and now they've been kind of building back to it.

So I think it's an organization that does things the right way, pretty much is the best way that I can describe it.