Fingerlakes1.com Menu Kyle Evans covers local high school, college, and professional sports on FingerLakes1.com. Click here to contribute to our Sports Page or connect with Kyle using [email protected]. The Tampa Bay Lightning have assigned forward Boo Nieves to the Syracuse Crunch, vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced today. Nieves, 26, skated in four games with the New York Rangers during the 2019-20 regular season, posting a +2 rating and four penalty minutes. He’s skated in 76 career NHL games, all with the Rangers over the past four seasons, recording five goals and 19 points to go along with 24 penalty minutes. He set career bests during the 2018-19 season for games played (43), goals (four), points (10) and game-winning goals (one). The Syracuse, NY native attended the Lightning 2021 training camp and was named to the opening day roster.