The Tampa Bay Lightning went into the second day of the 2016 NHL Draft at Buffalo’s First Niagara Center with eight selections.
That number quickly grew to nine soon after the second round started.
The Lightning traded 2014 first round draft pick, defenseman Anthony DeAngelo, to the Arizona Coyotes for the 37th overall selection in 2016. Tampa Bay used the newly-acquired choice to nab Libor Hajek, a 6-foot-2, 196-pound defenseman from Smrcek, Czeck Republic, who last season had three goals, 23 assists and 76 penalty minutes in 69 games for the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League.