Title: Tampa Bay Lightning

Summary: Recognizes Tampa Bay Lightning.

Full Text:
WHEREAS, over its seasons, the Tampa Bay Lightning has made the Stanley Cup playoffs times and advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals four times, where it has won three championships, and WHEREAS, the Tampa Bay Lightning won back-to-back titles in 2020 and 2021, making it the first team to do so since the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017 and inclu ding it in an elite group of fewer than other franchises to accomplish such a feat, and WHEREAS, at a private team event on October 21, 2021, each member of the Tampa Bay Lightning was honored with the presentation of a spectacular championship ring in recognition of these two consecutive victories, boldly commemorating the team's place in Stanley Cup history, and WHEREAS, since the start of the 2014-2015 season, no other National Hockey League team has won more regular season or playoff games than the Tampa Bay Lightning, and WHEREAS, the Tampa Bay Lightning's 2021 Stanley Cup victory brings to Tampa Bay and the State of Florida the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, which was named after Lord Stanley of Preston and is among the most famous trophies in the sporting world, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Florida: That the Tampa Bay Lightning players, coaches, managers, and owners are recognized and congratulated for winning the 2021 Stanley Cup, making Tampa Bay, for the third time, the home of the best professional ice hockey team in North America. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be presented to the Tampa Bay Lightning as a tangible token of the sentiments expr essed herein.