Nolan Foote celebrating a goal at the World Juniors Every year around this point of the season, teams start to make moves and improve ahead of the trade deadline. Every trade that goes down is broken down on numerous all-day broadcasts but the one area they seem to lack at times is [...]
I'm sorry. Sometimes in life, we get it wrong. In prospect evaluations and draft rankings, we get it wrong all the time. Every year there are players that we may be lower on than others and we question how others see those players in such high regard. Six months later we realize that we [...]
| Dylan Blujus, D | ||
| Shoots: R | Height: 6-3 | Weight: 192 |
| Born: 1994-01-22
| Hometown: Buffalo, NY, USA
| Drafted: 2012 by Tampa Bay Lightning, 40th Overall |
| Brayden Point, RC | ||
| Shoots: R | Height: 5-9 | Weight: 161 |
| Born: 1996-03-12 | Hometown: Calgary, AB, CAN | Drafted: 2014 by Tampa Bay Lightning, 79th overall |
| Slater Koekkoek, D | ||
| Shoots: L | Height: 6-2 | Weight: 197 |
| Born: 1994-02-18 | Hometown: Mountain, Ontario | Drafted: 2012 by Tampa Bay Lightning, 10th Overall |
| Yanni Gourde, LW | ||
| Shoots: L | Height: 5-09 | Weight: 170 |
| Born: 1991-12-15 | Hometown: Saint-Narcisse, QC, Canada | Drafted: Undrafted |
The Tampa Bay Lightning rookie tournament that was originally scheduled to be held in Estero, Florida at the home of the Florida Everblades was cancelled due to concerns with Hurricane Irma. The arena was converted to a hurricane shelter. The Lightning scheduled a three-game mini-tournament with the Nashville Predators in Antioch, Tennessee at the Ford [...]
The Lightning experienced an overwhelming amount of injuries over the course of the 2016-17 season leading to their first playoff miss since 2013. The injury plagued season allowed the Lightning to closely examine several of their ripening prospects, as well as potentially earn some leverage in negotiations with key RFA’s Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat, [...]
A common anecdote in the Lightning front office since the “Summer of Stamkos” has been the pressure that the NHL salary cap has enforced on their group of developing players. While the Lightning have been successful in developing players from within their own system, sooner or later, they all need to get paid. The Lightning [...]
| Tye McGinn, LW | ||
| Shoots: L | Height: 6-2 | Weight: 205 |
| Born: 1990-07-29 | Hometown: Fergus, ON, CAN | Drafted: 2010 by Philadelphia Flyers, 119th Overall |
