The Tampa Bay Lightning 2018-2019 NHL season is right around the corner. Thus, it’s time for Raw Charge to give our predictions on how the season will go. This is the first in a two part series covering our predictions for the Atlantic Division.
First, we start the pretenders in the division. Provided will be the blog’s aggregate ranking of the team with their highest and lowest rank being in parenthesis. Additionally, the fan vote ranking will be annotated as well.
Projected Cap Hit - $73,034,524
Projected Cap Space - $6,465,476
Projected LTIR Used - $0
Contracts - 47/50
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25-45-12, 62 points (8th in Atlantic)
Ranking
Staff: 5 (Highest: 4 Lowest: 7)
Fans: 5
The Sabres are an interesting team entering this season.