Speculation: 2024-2025 General Lightning Discussion II: New year, same Cooper shell

[Felonious Python]

Yanni Gourde will probably get moved at the deadline.

Mathieu Olivier seems interesting. Fights aren't a huge thing in the playoffs, but we've shed a lot of that over the past few years.

Nils Hoglander's profile reads like a guy the Lightning would get. A fearless, undersized forward.

 

[Lightning1995]

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We just gotta upset the apple cart, I don’t think we will ever be the most talented team in the postseason until we do a full rebuild.

I agree we won’t be the most talented team anymore but that’s doesn’t change the fact the draw sucks

 

[nhljohnson]

With the way Kuzmenko’s season has gone, shouldn’t take much to take him off CGY’s hands. There might not be a better spot to try for him to try and salvage what is a contract year.

 

[Todd1a]

I was thinking about Andersson a bit this morning and it could actually be a super savvy move if the cap has the bigger than expected jump that EF is reporting. You could essentially build 3 very solid 2-way pairs of:
Moser - Andersson
McDonagh - Cernak
Hedman - Raddysh

Which would allow us to give Hedman more sheltered starts as he ages and begins to decline. This would be allotting a lot of capspace for Defense though, so you'd have to be pretty confident in Geekie at 2RW as we would have very minimal budget to upgrade their and would need to spend pretty much the entire remaining cap on our third line.

Yep we can use a player like Andersson sooner or later mcdonagh and Hedman will get worse and age

It'll have to be a top priority once his season is over. I am going to be a little surprised if he doesn't have to play in the AHL for a spell

Are 2nd and 3rd lines aren’t that good Howard could play on our 3rd line now