Prefer Johnson to Calgary .. for Janowkowski and Harmonic .. it a perfect for for Johnson and Calgary .. TJ needs a fresh start in western conference .. if he cries NTC .. then Syracuse in 2020 and Seattle expansion .. he done in Tampa

Too bad that's now how it works. Johnson will invoke his ntc for those teams and Syracuse isn't an option as either the bolts would lose him for nothing via waivers or in the highly unlikely scenario he cleared, he would still eat a large portion of his contract towards the cap for a player that would then not even be playing in Tampa. Killorn is the only one of the 3 or 4 non core role guys who could be moved without his complete agreement to do so. Joseph gets moved perhaps fir a rental Kreider or Toffoli(maybe a chance to resign Toffoli, but likely not Kreider), Killorn is traded, and maybe one more small move to make the roster work next year, depending on where the cap ends up. Hopefully it's around 84, which if so the Lightning should be able to fit in Serg, Cirelli and Cernak, while maybe being able to keep Maroon if he wants to stay.

Why does Johnson wave to go to non-playoff team?
And why does Coburn leave Tampa?

Answer is they dont.


More likely Tampa trades Cirelli for futures cause they cant pay him.

Unless you have a NMC .. not NTC ..
you can be exposed/sent to Seattle ..

TJ IS WORST PLAYER ON ICE IN TONIGHTS GAME AGAIN .. COST TAMPA FIRST GOAL AND HIM AND GOURDE COULDNT SCORE IN A ##$%HOUSE WITH A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS .. it getting worse

Hey how about that Charlie Coyle and Chris Wagener contracts with Boston?.. LOL .. we paid Gourde Coyle money with Wagner 4th line talent .. oh wait dont worry Gourde only older than BOTH of them with 10 years less experience !!!!

TJ may be exposed for the expansion draft, but that's not until summer after next, so guess what, he's not going anywhere unless he wants to. Neither him, Gourde nor Palat are leaving until Summer 2021 at earliest. Gourde has been one of their best players as of late. Johnson has struggled, but not near the reason for the loss tonight. The team sucked on the PP and Vasi once again was a joke. The lightning still struggle mightily against heavy teams, although they did look better tonight. They outplayed them for a good part of the game, but again weak goaltending and a terrible pp killed them.