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What Tampa Bay Lightning players have a shot at making 2022 Olympics rosters?
It’s all the rage right now, so might as well take a look at who’s in, who’s out, and who is on the bubble.
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We’re a year away from the 2022 Winter Olympics and that means it’s time to project the Olympic rosters. I might as well get in on the action here with a look at the Tampa Bay Lightning. With the renegotiated CBA, the NHL promised to let players go to the Olympics after stonewalling players and locking them out for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Bolts prepared to defend Stanley Cup on short rest
Tampa Bay quickly gets back to work on Wednesday after a truncated offseason and training camp by Bryan Burns @BBurnsNHL /
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The Tampa Bay Lightning s quest to repeat as Stanley Cup champions begins Wednesday when the Bolts host the Chicago Blackhawks at AMALIE Arena to start the 2020-21 regular season.
The Stanley Cup will be in the building.
The Lightning will unveil their Stanley Cup championship banner prior to the game.
And then the Lightning will go right back to work trying to win the Cup that eluded them for so many seasons all over again.
Wednesday s Matchup
Tampa Bay opens the 2020-21 regular season by hosting the Chicago Blackhawks at AMALIE Arena.The Lightning are opening the season against an opponent other than the Florida Panthers for the first time since the 2016-17 opener against Detroit (a 6-4 win).The Bolts are opening the season against the Blackhawks for just the second time in franchise history; the first came in the franchise s first ever game, a 7-4 victory at Expo Hall, powered by a four-goal night by Chris Kontos, still tied for the team record for most goals ever in a game (also: Martin St. Louis, 4 goals 1/18/14 vs. SJS), to start the 1992-93 campaign.The Lightning went 1-1-0 against Chicago during the 2019-20 regular season.The Bolts defeated the Blackhawks 4-2 in Chicago Nov. 21, 2019 in a game they never trailed, Mikhail Sergachev (PP), Anthony Cirelli, Brayden Point and Cedric Paquette (ENG) all scoring for the Lightning and Curtis McElhinney stopping 32-of-34 shots for his third victory of the
The Maple Leafs have thought better of their plan to start rookie defenceman Mikko Lehtonen in the top-six rotation this season, bumping the blueliner onto their fourth pairing (and off the second power-play unit) at Monday’s practice in favour of Travis Dermott.
“We think there s areas of [Lehtonen’s] game that need a little bit more time. We don t want to rush him into a situation that he may not be adjusted to quite yet,” said head coach Sheldon Keefe on a Zoom call Monday. “So we re going to take our time with that….and take a little step back with Mikko and give him more time to watch and get a feel for the league. …We expect that he obviously will get in at some point, and we hope he s more prepared when that s the case.”