TAMPA — Matt Tomkins never lacked confidence he eventually would make it to the NHL. But when you take a path as winding as Tomkins has, you often wonder when the window of opportunity will open.

MONTREAL — When Matt Tomkins was a boy growing up in the Edmonton area, Patrick Roy was finishing up his Hall of Fame playing career with the Colorado Avalanche. In his final three seasons of ...

I think our game’s matured from the back end all the way out.” The Lightning needed goaltender Matt Tomkins, an emergency recall from AHL Syracuse, to step up late in his first NHL start since ...

MONTREAL — A red-hot Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist and goaltender Matt Tomkins earned his first NHL win as the Lightning defeated the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Tuesday night.

The Tampa Bay Lightning have made a roster move, reassigning goaltender Matt Tomkins to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. Tomkins, 30, was called up to the ...

Matt Tomkins furrowed his brow and stormed with uncharacteristic furor toward an exit of the BMO Harris Bank Center. As he did, Tomkins might have missed stopping to say “Goodnight” to the ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Matt Tomkins waited a long time to earn his first NHL win. But he might not change a thing about the way it happened. The 29-year-old Tomkins was drafted in the seventh round in ...

Jacob Stoller and Justin Cohn discuss goaltender Mariah Fujimagari's ECHL win, Matt Tomkins joining former ECHL players to play in the NHL, the 10th season since the ECHL absorbed the rest of the ...

Tomkins will guard the road goal versus the Canadiens on Tuesday, Chris Krenn of the Lightning's official site reports. Tomkins has lost his first two starts of the season, allowing seven goals on ...

In a corresponding move, the team announced they’d recalled third-stringer Matt Tomkins from AHL Syracuse. The Bolts don’t have another recall option from the AHL if both Vasilevskiy and ...

Tomkins was loaned to AHL Syracuse on Sunday. Tomkins has been the backup goalie behind Andrei Vasilevskiy in the last two games due to the absence of Jonas Johansson (lower body). If Johansson ...