You might not recognize the name, but my words were probably some of the first you read after the Lightning won its first – and, so far, only — Stanley Cup 14 years ago today.
In the days before social media, email newsletters and push notifications became commonplace, our website was the quickest way for the Times to deliver news to our readers. One of my jobs on June 7, 2004 was to produce a game story that we would publish at the buzzer on tampabay.com.
Because of that, my perspective that night likely was different from most of yours.