Martin St. Louis RUMORS & NEWS

Tampa Bay Times "Lightning right wing Marty St. Louis won the Lady Byng Memorial Award after leading the league with 60 points on 17 goals and a league-best 43 assists with just 14 penalty minutes. It is the third time St. Louis has won the trophy given for sportsmanship in a vote by the Professional Hockey..." June 14

NHL.com "Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks, Matt Moulson of the New York Islanders and Martin St. Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning have been named the finalists for the 2013 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, awarded "to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly..." May 16

Tampa Tribune "Tampa Bay Lightning forward Marty St. Louis is a finalist for the Ted Lindsay Award, given annually to the National Hockey League's most outstanding player as voted upon by members of the NHL Players' Association. Other finalists for the 2012-13 award announced Thursday by the NHLPA were center..." May 11

NHL.com "Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin and Martin St. Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning were announced Thursday as the finalists for the 2013 Ted Lindsay Award. The award is presented annually to the most outstanding player in the NHL, as voted by fellow..." May 09

CBSSports.com "Martin St. Louis made history. The 37-year old Lightning center became the oldest player to win the league scoring title, finishing with a goal and an assist in Tampa Bay's 5-3 loss to the Florida Panthers in the season finale for two non-playoff teams on Saturday night. St. Louis won the..." April 28

Tampa Tribune "The playoff race for the Lightning ended long ago, but the scoring race is heating up. Marty St. Louis notched his seventh career hat trick to gain the league scoring lead in Tampa Bay’s 5-2 victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday in front of an announced crowd of 18,826 at The..." April 25

Tampa Bay Times "Safe to say that if Marty St. Louis wanted to play for Canada in next month's world championship, the right wing, whose 42 assists lead the league and whose 55 points are second, would have a spot. But St. Louis said he will pass on the tournament in Sweden and Finland because it is time to..." April 22

Tampa Tribune "The Lightning can't hit with runners on. The Rays need better goaltending. Wait, that's wrong. I'm getting our lousy local teams confused. Back to the Bolts, and something I just can't get out of my head: Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos and Marty St. Louis - or Marty St. Louis and Steven..." April 18

Tampa Tribune "Not sure how or why trade rumors that swirled regarding Marty St. Louis took flight, but they were spreading widely late last week. By midweek, shortly after Jarome Iginla was dealt to the Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis suddenly became the next big name on the trade market. Except he never..." March 31

Tampa Bay Times "Would Marty St. Louis ever leave the Lightning? Would Steve Yzerman consider trading him? Tho notion might not be as far-fetched as you think, and as the April 3 trade deadline gets closer — and if Tampa Bay completely loses its grasp on the playoff race — expect St. Louis and the general..." March 17

Tampa Tribune "Sometimes stats don't state the whole story. Lightning veteran RW Marty St. Louis entered Sunday with three goals and a league-high 11 assists through the first eight games of the season. While the points have been piling up, the former league MVP and scoring champion doesn't appear to be near..." February 04

Tampa Bay Times "Marty St. Louis, who will turn 37 in June, knows he's not getting any younger. But the Tampa Bay Lightning wing said he has faith the team will quickly bounce back from this season's disappointment and that general manager Steve Yzerman will make the right moves this summer. If he didn't believe..." April 24

Tampa Bay Times "Lightning star Marty St. Louis has been in his share of gut-wrenching, emotional games during his NHL career, with a thin line separating elation from devastation. To the wing, the Frozen Four, the NCAA championship that comes to Tampa this week, is a perfect storm of that excitement wrapped..." April 02

Tampa Bay Times "By now you have retraced every footstep he took on the road to nowhere. You know about the detours, and you know about the obstacles in the road. Eleven starts and already Knicks guard Jeremy Lin has his own mania. With every point, and with every pun, the legend swells. He is twice as big as..." February 28

Tampa Tribune "The late-season version of the Tampa Bay Lightning resembles that of a boxer who has taken blow after blow only to maintain enough balance and composure to remain standing and deliver some counterpunches. Left for all but down and out following a blowout loss the day before, Tampa Bay rebounded..." February 27

Tampa Bay Times "Marty St. Louis insists he is not superstitious. That the Lightning wing likes four pieces of gum in his locker before games; that he has worn the same torn, blue shirt under his jersey for six years; that teammate Vinny Lecavalier said, "You want to do something to him? Take his (stick) tape..." February 07

Tampa Tribune "Knowing when somebody is going to zig and when he is going to zag looks like intuition between teammates. It can't be practiced or mapped out. Sometimes, it just happens. Or, in the case of Lightning stars Vinny Lecavalier and Marty St. Louis, happens again. The Tampa Bay veterans have..." February 07

Tampa Bay Times "There comes a time in every season going bad when someone — if that season is to be saved — forces those responsible to look in the mirror. That is what happened Monday at the Ice Sports Forum when wing Marty St. Louis said Lightning players, including himself, have not worked hard enough,..." January 10

Tampa Tribune "Two games into his rapid recovery from facial injuries, Tampa Bay Lightning alternate captain Marty St. Louis still finds himself adjusting to some new gear. St. Louis returned to action on Dec. 21, less than two weeks after being struck near his left eye with an errant puck on the morning of..." December 28

Tampa Bay Times "When he suffered scary facial injuries from being hit by a puck Dec. 8, not even Marty St. Louis expected to be playing less than two weeks later. But the Lightning right wing was happy to be back on the ice, even though it came in a 7-2 loss to San Jose on Wednesday. "Once it happened, if..." December 24

Tampa Tribune "Not even the heroic return of Marty St. Louis was enough to wake up the Lightning late Wednesday night. Tampa Bay looked like it was nap time back east instead of game time out west. St. Louis made a surprise return to the lineup less than two weeks after being struck in the face with a puck,..." December 22

Tampa Bay Times "Marty St. Louis said he will seriously consider wearing a visor when he returns from facial injuries sustained at a Dec. 8 morning skate when he was hit by a backhand shot from teammate Dominic Moore. St. Louis likely will first wear a cage to protect his broken nose. But wearing a visor is a..." December 19

Tampa Bay Times "When Lightning star Marty St. Louis rejoined his teammates Saturday on a plane ride back from Philadelphia, he knew he had to put Dominic Moore's mind at ease. Moore's errant backhand shot during Thursday's morning skate broke St. Louis' nose, bloodied his face, swelled his left eye so he could..." December 13

Tampa Tribune "For just the third time in the past decade, the locker stall normally occupied by Marty St. Louis sat empty during a game and his equipment remained in his hockey bag. After being struck in the face with an errant puck during Thursday's morning skate, St. Louis is expected to miss a significant..." December 10

Tampa Bay Times "The Lightning equipment managers put Marty St. Louis' sticks in the rack for warmups Thursday night. For the first time in 500 games, they went unused. Tampa Bay's star right wing would have played his 500th consecutive game against the Rangers. Instead, he was at NYU Medical Center..." December 09

Tampa Tribune "Nearly a year ago, around 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, Tom Mulligan's phone rang. Phone calls at that time of the morning generally mean trouble. Marty St. Louis was on the other end of the line and told the Tampa Bay Lightning's head medical trainer there was a problem. St. Louis was calling from the..." December 08

Tampa Bay Times "Yes, the Tampa Bay Lightning made a couple bad defensive mistakes in Monday's 4-2 loss to the Senators and goaltender Dwayne Roloson failed to bail them out a couple of times with saves he should have made. But what really has burned coach Guy Boucher and his players recently is their missed..." December 07

Tampa Tribune "As the Tampa Bay Lightning filed off the ice at the Troy Sports Center after practice Tuesday, a large contingent of media filed into an adjacent locker room, trailing Tampa Bay general manager Steve Yzerman. Around this part of the country, Yzerman's association lies with a single franchise,..." November 30

Tampa Bay Times "Granted, it's been a long time since Tampa Bay Lightning star Marty St. Louis played with Wade Belak -- from 1998-2000 they were together with either the Flames or AHL St. John -- but St. Louis on Friday said he remembers a a teammate who "was always in a good mood. "From what I remember,..." September 03

Tampa Bay Times "There is a subtle difference between the Hart Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award. The Hart, voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, is for the NHL's most valuable player. The Lindsay, formerly the Pearson Award, is voted by the players for the most outstanding..." June 22

Tampa Bay Times "Guy Boucher has known Marty St. Louis as a player for only eight months, but that is long enough for the Lightning coach to understand how and why his star wing flourishes in the biggest games. "With players like him, the biggest thing is they don't see things as a threat," Boucher said. "They..." May 27

Tampa Bay Times "When former Vermont coach Mike Gilligan thinks about two of his favorite former players, Lightning wing Marty St. Louis and Bruins goalie Tim Thomas, plenty of similarities between the two come to mind. They are cut from the same competitive cloth: battlers who had to overcome the odds and "labor..." May 12

Tampa Tribune "And so here they are. Eighteen years ago, they were college freshmen, playing hockey in northern Vermont on the shores of Lake Champlain, an undersized dynamo from Laval, Quebec and a quirky goaltender from rough, tough Flint, Mich. Two competitors, two underdogs, trying to reach their..." May 12

Tampa Tribune "Lightning C Steven Stamkos stands out among his peers. And his peers in the NHL voted the third-year star one of three finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award, presented to the "Most Outstanding Player" as voted on by the members of the National Hockey League Players' Association. Anaheim's..." May 06

Tampa Tribune "Tampa Bay Lightning wing Marty St. Louis will have the chance to win consecutive Lady Byng awards. St. Louis, 35, is among three finalists for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, the NHL's annual award recognizing the combination of sportsmanship, gentlemanly play and ability. St. Louis won the..." April 21

Tampa Tribune "They had won 47 games this season, and few of those were won by going meekly. Just when it seemed the Tampa Bay Lightning would do that, and then some, to fall behind 3-1 in their playoff series with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Down 2-0 in the second period, they rose on up. And it started with..." April 21

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Late in the second period of Game 4, Martin St. Louis was still trying to put this somehow recalcitrant Tampa Bay Lightning team on his back, and given the proportionate realities, it was like trying to hoist a sleeping elephant onto a coffee table. Having been largely unresponsive to its own..." April 21

Tampa Bay Times "He has given his sweat, and he has given his blood. He has fought tooth and nail, especially tooth. After a season of being his team's best player, he has spent a week of the postseason being his team's best player. Given all that, how can the Lightning possibly ask for more from Marty St...." April 20

Tampa Tribune "Marty St. Louis scored the Lightning's only two goals on power plays Monday, beating Pittsburgh's Marc-Andre Fleury with a backhander from the right edge of the crease in the first and with a wrist shot from the same spot in the third. A couple of weeks ago, St. Louis probably wouldn't have..." April 19

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Silver stubble is showing in places after Martin St. Louis shaved his head for a recent charity event. The right side of his lower lip has a hamburger quality. And, if he were to pull back his upper lip, you might be able to see his recent repair work. That would be a double root canal..." April 15

Tampa Tribune "They're a part of our sports landscape. First names are enough. Marty and Vinny. They've been Lightning teammates for 10 seasons. Seven years ago, they took turns lifting the Stanley Cup. Last season, they took turns wondering whatever happened to those days, or if they'd play again in..." April 13

Tampa Tribune "One year and one day ago today, Marty St. Louis stood inside the Lightning locker room, looked around and pondered whether the end of his days in Tampa Bay stared back at him. For nearly a decade, St. Louis poured his heart into the franchise. He bled for the Lightning. He shed tears of joy and..." April 13

Tampa Bay Times "As soon as Vinny Lecavalier saw teammate Marty St. Louis pick off the pass, Lecavalier was off to the races. "The work on that, for me, is to beat the D," Lecavalier said. That is because the Lightning center knew St. Louis' first instinct would be to pass to his fastbreaking..." April 12

Tampa Bay Times "For a few moments Wednesday morning, it was just Lightning teammates Marty St. Louis and Mike Smith on the ice. St. Louis had a shootout move he wanted to try. Smith, Tampa Bay's backup goaltender, was, as he called himself, "the guinea pig." "I was trying to do something a little more fun..." March 10

Tampa Tribune "Marty St. Louis skated down right wing, cut toward the net, then spun himself around before stopping in his tracks and lifting a backhander into the net to the roar of a sold-out Forum on Wednesday night. The goal itself won't count on his stats and will be a blip on the radar in the box score..." March 10

Tampa Bay Times "Marty St. Louis thought for a moment before describing as "swagger" that little extra something in his game. On second thought, he said, "I guess I shouldn't call it that. That's too arrogant." But the Lightning left wing couldn't come up with a suitable alternative and finally said, "I just..." March 02

Tampa Tribune "On the ice, Steven Stamkos and Marty St. Louis pair to form one of the top duos in the National Hockey League. There is a link between the players, an innate ability that shows up at opportune times. The results can be electric. It's a big reason both will represent the Lightning at this..." January 31

Tampa Tribune "Tampa Bay Lightning fans might have been salivating Sunday, watching the 58th NHL All-Star Game. Not because Steven Stamkos scored a goal in his first appearance or that Marty St. Louis — in his sixth All-Star Game — scored his fourth All-Star goal while picking up an assist in helping Team..." January 31