Following Saturday’s 5-4 win against the Nashville Predators at Amalie Arena, the Tampa Bay Lightning announced their biggest round of cuts to date as 30 players were reassigned. That leaves 26 players in camp as the regular season roster begins to take shape.
There weren’t many surprises to the cuts and most of the players are heading to Syracuse where the Crunch will open up their training camp later this week. Goaltender Hugo Alnefelt was part of the group that was reassigned, indicating that general manager Julien BriseBois will either go with Matt Tomkins as the back-up to Jonas Johansson, or is waiting to see what the waiver wire brings to see if a veteran is available as other teams reduce their rosters.