Pre-Game Talk: The 2024-2025 Tampa Bay Lightning Training Camp

[Point21]

Tomkins on waivers today, JoJo will be the backup....

 

[ccman68]

Tomkins on waivers today, JoJo will be the backup....

the guy who just beat up the defending champs? how will we survive

 

[DFC]

SAM GAGNER IS STILL IN THE LEAGUE!?!?!?

 

[JoVel]

SAM GAGNER IS STILL IN THE LEAGUE!?!?!?

I've thought the same a bunch of times and at some point I figured Sam Gagner and Simon Gagné have always been the same person in my head.

 

[DFC]

I've thought the same a bunch of times and at some point I figured Sam Gagner and Simon Gagné have always been the same person in my head.

I did have the same thought about Simon Gagne a few times too. But that's just a weird coincidence. Never got them confused. Just figured Sam kind of drifted away a few years ago but apparently he's been kicking around.

Oh wow. 1000 nhl games and just 11 in the playoffs. Bad luck.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Oh wow. 1000 nhl games and just 11 in the playoffs. Bad luck.

Insert Jeff Skinner joke

 

[Deas]

Geekie making the team?

 

[These Are The Days]

Geekie making the team?

I would be shocked, astonished, flabbergasted, befuddled, gobsmacked and crapping myself all at once if that happened. It would be like the first time since Point we had a forward just skip the Syracuse program.

I am not betting on it. The odds of Geekie making the day 1 team and sticking around is probably single digits

 

[Sky04]

I would be shocked, astonished, flabbergasted, befuddled, gobsmacked and crapping myself all at once if that happened. It would be like the first time since Point we had a forward just skip the Syracuse program.

I am not betting on it. The odds of Geekie making the day 1 team and sticking around is probably single digits

You're talking like it's an active coaching decision to hold prospects down, the reality is we've had no one good enough since Point to even be worth a discussion.

 

[These Are The Days]

You're talking like it's an active coaching decision to hold prospects down, the reality is we've had no one good enough since Point to even be worth a discussion.

No shit dude.... that is all but expressly implied. You really can't help yourself can't you?

 

[JTBF81]

Since neither Glendening nor Ace are likely to go on ltir to begin the season, there's basically one spot for a F. Brown was looking good, but is now once again injured. Maybe he goes on ltir if he's offered a contract, but I kind of doubt he stays. Depending on Goncalves' injury, he'd probabaly be the front runner for the last spot, but Geekie may have passed him. However, with Tampa rarely having prospects bypass Syracuse, and not wanting to place Geekie on the 4th (and probabaly not greatly positioned on the 3rd either), will Cooper give him a top 6 or even top 9 spot right away? If not, he'd be better served to play 15-20 games on the Crunch's 1st line and then get called up if he thrives. I'd still say the last spot is either Goncalves or Ylonen due to the injury to Brown, with Geekie still in the mix as well.

 

[Felonious Python]

Logan Brown got a deal with the Crunch.

 

[Sky04]

No shit dude.... that is all but expressly implied. You really can't help yourself can't you?

lol

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[Felonious Python]

Player	Assigned to
Carlile, Declan	Syracuse (AHL)
Duke, Dylan	Syracuse (AHL)
Gauthier, Ethan	Drummondville (QMJHL)
Goncalves, Gage	Syracuse (AHL)
Groshev, Maxim	Syracuse (AHL)
Santini, Steven	Syracuse (AHL)
Szturc, Gabriel	Syracuse (AHL)
Tomkins, Matt	Syracuse (AHL)
Ylonen, Jesse	Syracuse (AHL)

 

[LightningStrikes]

Geekie stays up for now!

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Geekie stays up for now!

Crossing my fingers

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Good sign here

 

[Felonious Python]

Opening night is a few days away, but this is essentially the final camp cut. We have 14 "healthy" forwards, including Glendening and Eyssimont.

Now they just have to worry about every day for the rest of the season.

The Crunch play their second preseason game today at 3. We'll see if they hit the road early.

 

[ccman68]

geekie will stay up until eyssimont is healthy and be sent down. wouldn’t want any young guys getting in the way of sheary

 

[JTBF81]

I'd guess Ylonen and Crozier are also sent down/waived once everyone is healthy, and that should leave the team with the expected 13F, 7D. 2G that there was room for under the cap.

 

[Rschmitz]

I'd guess Ylonen and Crozier are also sent down/waived once everyone is healthy, and that should leave the team with the expected 13F, 7D. 2G that there was room for under the cap.

Ylonen has already been sent down

 

[JTBF81]

Ylonen has already been sent down

Yeah, guess I missed him there.

 

[JTBF81]

So I guess the final 4 names to go off the 26 player list from NHL.com will be Brown (injured and on an AHL contract), Finley, Fortier, and Crozier.

 

[Felonious Python]