Lightning announces preseason schedule

The Lightning's just-announced five-game pre-season slate includes two games at The Forum: Sept. 22 against the Eastern Conference champion Penguins and Sept. 23 against the Rangers.

The complete schedule:

Date                                     Opponent                     Location                                             Time
Sat. Sept. 20                        Pittsburgh                    Mellon Arena                                       7:30 p.m.
Mon. Sept. 22                      Pittsburgh                      St. Pete Times Forum                           7:30 p.m.
Tue. Sept. 23                      NY Rangers                    St. Pete Times Forum                           7:30 p.m.
Thur. Sept. 25                      NY Rangers                   Madison Square Garden                        7:00 p.m.
Sun. Sept. 28                       Eisbaren Berlin              Berlin, Germany                                   10:00 p.m.
*all times EST and subject to change

Summer on the ice

Sean Miles, 8, from Sarasota, gets some advice from Lightning owner Oren Koules at the team's Summer Hockey Camp at the Brandon Ice Sports Forum.

The Lightning Summer Camp has about 250 kids, ages 4-15. The team also offers a holiday hockey camp in December.

[Times photo | Dirk Shadd]

Lightning's new logo

Filip Kuba slaps hands with fans while walking down the red carpet in the new Lighting jersey with the redesigned logo during Ice Fest at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa on Saturday.

[Dirk Shadd | Times photo]

Send us your Lightning photos

We have lots of great  Lightning photos by Times photojournalists, but we'd like yours, too.

We'll be creating a photo gallery of fans' Lightning photos, from games or wherever you watch the team play (at parties, bars, in your living room). Have any great photos from last season or the 2004 Stanley Cup celebration? Send them along.

Here's how to get them to us: E-mail your photo to sptimes.photo@tamw.com. Your subject line becomes the title of the photo and the body of your message becomes the caption.

(Above, Chris Cook of Lakeland, with his daughter, sent us this photo from the St. Pete Times Forum on the 1-year anniversary of winning the Stanley Cup. Click to go to gallery)