Well now, apparently it’s time to fire up the speculation machine and talk about Tanner Jeannot. In the immediate aftermath of the deal that brought in Ryan McDonagh, all sorts of talk whipped around the hockey world about how the Lightning would be able to squeeze in a new deal for their captain, Steven Stamkos, and fill out the other holes in the roster with just $5,035,000 in cap space.
In order to forward a legitimate offer to the best player in franchise history, something would have to give. For a lot of folks, that something is Tanner Jeannot.