The game of hockey has had quite a run in recent years in the state of Florida. The Florida Panthers are the defending Stanley Cup winners, and the Tampa Bay Lightning have won back-to-back

How will the NHL pull off an outdoor game in Tampa? Just build it and they will come. The league is ready to embrace the risk of playing outside in the Sunshine State.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...