In the early afternoon hours of Thursday the Tampa Bay Lightning brought in some veteran help for the bottom-six. Corey Perry joined the team that’s knocked him out of the Stanley Cup Final in each of the past two seasons. It’s a relatively low-cost deal, valued at $1 million per season over the next two years. While he isn’t the prolific goalscorer he once was, Perry can more than hold his own defensively and could be a fit on a reconstituted third line.
His signing was met with mixed feelings. A lot of folks don’t mind the signing, even at 36-years-old Perry has shown that he can still compete in this league (remember the double-OT game winner in Game Five of the 2020 Stanley Cup Final).