Posts About "Ondrej Palat"
Devils' Trading Partners: The Lightning Have What They Need
August 3rd, 2020 Weaponizing cap space is not a luxury many teams have. But it's something the New Jersey Devils have done to a great extent over the last few seasons. Whether it was acquiring Marcus Johansson in 2017 or Nikita Gusev almost a year ago, they've used their available cap space to their advantage. It won't be any different...
Red Wings Must Take Advantage of Flat Salary Cap
July 2nd, 2020 If the speculation holds true that the 2020-21 salary cap upper limit will remain at $81.5 million, the Detroit Red Wings have a tremendous opportunity in front of them. Only a few short years ago, the Red Wings were in salary cap purgatory. They were constantly among the top spenders, but the on-ice product’s return on investment...
Lightning's 2011 NHL Draft Picks: Where Are They Now?
June 27th, 2020 Welcome to the second part of a series that looks back on the Tampa Bay Lightning's draft picks over the years and where they are now. This part will discuss the picks from the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. This draft is one that Lightning fans remember with joy. Although they did not know it at the time, they selected two of the franchise's...
Lightning: 5 Best Yzerman-Era Draft Picks
June 25th, 2020 Throughout his tenure with the Tampa Bay Lightning, general manager Steve Yzerman found great success at the draft. Even if he struggled at times with first-round picks, his team of scouts consistently pulled top-talent out of all rounds of the draft. With the 2019 edition representing the first draft for the Lightning without...
Lightning's 2020 Trade Block: Ondrej Palat
June 7th, 2020 Few players in Tampa Bay Lightning history have the legacy of Ondrej Palat. We all know the story by now. As an overage seventh-round selection at the 2011 NHL Draft, Palat defied all expectations by breaking out with the Lightning's then-AHL affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals. Related: NHL Power Rankings Based On Positional...
10 Best 7th Round Picks Since 2005
June 5th, 2020 The NHL Draft is used to try and level the playing field in the league. The teams near the bottom of the league standings get the opportunity to draft first in the draft, getting the first chance at some of the best players of that class. Every prospect is different, however, and they develop in different ways. Some are extremely...
Lightning: Looking Forward to the 2021 Seattle Expansion Draft
April 24th, 2020 For the Tampa Bay Lightning, the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft was relatively painless. While the Vegas Golden Knights built a Stanley Cup contender using leverage granted by the NHL, the Lightning managed to navigate the tricky situation relatively well, ridding themselves of Jason Garrison's contract by offering up Nikita Gusev, a 2017...
Kucherov Scores in OT to Lift Lightning past Predators 3-2
December 3rd, 2019 NASHVILLE — Nikita Kucherov scored at 2:35 of overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. Victor Hedman and Ondrej Palat also scored and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 30 shots as the Lightning snap...
Palat Is One Lightning Bright Spot
November 10th, 2019 It's been a less than ideal start for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2019-20. Many had them pegged as a Stanley Cup favorite, but they've been pedestrian at best thus far with an 8-5-2 record, 18 points and three points back of the second wildcard spot in the Eastern Conference. So far, they've had production from the usual suspects —...
Bolts Breakdown: Lightning Have Failed to Respond to Adversity
November 4th, 2019 One month of the 2019-20 NHL season is done, and the Tampa Bay Lightning are currently three points out of a playoff spot. So far this season, they have been struggling with penalties and giving up high-danger scoring chances while being streaky at best on offense. This past week saw much of the same. In three games against the New...
Lightning: Worst Contracts for the 2019-20 Season
August 17th, 2019 As the Tampa Bay Lightning developed a core of highly talented players over the course of the last decade, they consistently found ways to keep these stars around. By signing players to long-term contracts, they were often able to trade immediate cap hit for security, avoiding overpaying for their core. This has created a somewhat...
Lightning Trade Block: Ondrej Palat
June 5th, 2019 Went ahead and removed the offending link. I keep forgetting they changed to a paywall.
Ondrej Palat: The Lightning's Forgotten Star
February 4th, 2019 Sometimes you just have to admit when you were wrong. And I can say, with full authority, that I was wrong when I wrote an article titled 'The Lightning Should Trade Ondrej Palat' in December. At the time my thought process was simple. When Palat went down with an injury in November, the Tampa Bay Lightning didn't miss a beat, going...
