Posts About "Ondrej Palat"
Lightning: 5 Best Yzerman-Era Draft Picks
June 19th, 2019 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 2019 representing the first draft for the Lightning without Yzerman in close...
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...
Lightning Should Trade Ondrej Palat
December 2nd, 2018 Since Ondrej Palat joined the Tampa Bay Lightning as a seventh-round pick in the 2011 NHL draft, he has done nothing but exceed expectations. As one of the last picks that year, there was little thought about his future with the organization at the time, let alone the belief that he would turn into one of the faces of the...
Lightning Triplets: Can They Rekindle Past Success?
October 24th, 2018 On Oct. 24, 2014, Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper decided to pair Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat on the same line, and they became known as 'The Triplets' to Lightning fans. Each player has their own style and brings something different to the team. Johnson is a speedy center who can blow past...
Lightning's Four Best Contracts for 2018-19
August 30th, 2018 Since taking over as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Steve Yzerman has made it a point to control his available cap space by all means necessary. So, in a world where the bridge deal is slowly dying off, Yzerman has worked the system to keep his best players under reasonable contracts before signing them to long-term...
