I don’t think it’s exactly a five alarm take to say that the Tampa Bay Lightning are the most talented team in the Eastern Conference. From Steven Stamkos to Jonathan Drouin to Tyler Johnson to Nikita Kucherov to Victor Hedman to everyone else. I could probably list about 95% of the roster here before I got to an interchangeable guy like J.T. Brown. Sure Ryan Callahan is washed up and Steve Yzerman probably wants to send Braydon Coburn to Venus, but you can’t be perfect.
And there’s no more embarrassment of riches for the Lightning than between the pipes.