One day of camp is in the books for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Is it time to make wide, sweeping proclamations about what the team is going to do for the entire season? Of course not, but let’s not let that stop us. One of the big questions about the squad this year is how will they replace the vaunted third line they lost to free agency/expansion?
In short, they’re not. There is no replacing Yanni Gourde, Barclay Goodrow, and Blake Coleman. They were a bright, shining comet that was in our lives for too short of a time and to expect any trio to duplicate their performance is preposterous.