Tampa is in a tough spot

Team: 2023-24 Tampa Bay Lightning

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 20, 2023

Published: Jun. 20, 2023

LTIR Enabled: No

Season Days: 186

Days Remaining: 185

Season Remaining: 99%

Projected Cap Hit Prior To Days Remaining : $83,050,000

This whole offseason is choosing either colton or killorn. Resigning killorn just doesn’t make sense, your gonna lock yourself into a long term contract with a guy who has been extremely underwhelming during the past 2 playoffs. Colton needs to be given a chance to grow otherwise we will find ourselves in a mother marchessault or carter situation. Colton is the younger, faster and more physical option and it makes all the sense to keep colton unless they are able to get a trade they can not decline to better help this team in the future.

Colton almost filed for arbitration the first time he was eligible for an extension so you can only imagine he’s looking to get paid for real this time. Any team with cap can offer him 3.5+ and basically force Tampa to accept the compensation picks so you need to get him signed soon and at a price he feels like he’s the winner in the deal. The longer this stall the worst case for tampa

Tanner has no leverage when it comes to this contract negotiation, but instead of screwing him over and making him feel disrespected how about you up the bet on the guy you trade 6 assets for. I love tanners game and I can’t wait to see him play after having a full offseason and training camp.

After those signings all we can do is add a 4th line centre, accari just makes sense even if he is a little more expensive.

Don’t look into Hugo being the backup too much. Tampa will sign a vet for leauge min and have them play 25 games this season