During his tenure as the general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Julien BriseBois hasn’t made a lot of huge splashes in the free agency market. A stellar crop of home-grown players has limited his needs to mostly filling in around the edges, and a tight salary cap has prevented him from even courting most of the big name free agents over the last six years. This past summer was a bit different. With a rising salary cap, the trade of Mikhail Sergachev, and an inability to come to terms with Steven Stamkos, Mr. BriseBois had the need for, and the cap space, to bring in the biggest name on the free agent board.
A look at what the numbers say about Jake Guentzel’s start with the Lightning
