After another year near the bottom of the standings, the Lightning use their No.
Needing a new coach for its AHL affiliate, the Lightning hire the top coach of the USHL: the Green Bay Gamblers’ Jon Cooper.
The Lightning sign an undrafted 22-year-old Canadian, Yanni Gourde, to its AHL team for the rest of the season with a two-way NHL deal for two more years after that.
Point explodes into a star and scores a goal in nine consecutive playoff games, one shy of tying the NHL record.
Besides giving Vasilevskiy more room to develop, the trade gives Tampa Bay defense prospect Erik Cernak, who scores the first goal of this year’s Stanley Cup final.
Sergachev helps fill Tampa Bay’s void on the blue line and becomes a valuable contributor on the title runs, while Drouin leaves the Canadiens for personal reasons in April.
After years of assembling the Lightning’s core, general manager Steve Yzerman steps down two days before the start of training camp.
Tampa Bay sends its last first-round pick and a conditional first-round pick to the Devils in exchange for Blake Coleman.
With Anthony Cirelli out indefinitely with an upper-body injury, the Lightning move Ross Colton to the taxi squad to add depth at forward.
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