As you probably knew Tyler Johnson went unclaimed through waivers. The Tampa Bay Lightning not only remain in the same cap situation as couple of days ago, but it also indicates that NHL teams do not have an interest in the Lightning forward even if they don’t have to give assets back. In his yesterday’s article Geo analyzes potential next steps by Julien BriseBois and even mentions a buyout possibility [Raw Charge]
The one backdoor option that the Lightning have, and this is still a weird and awkward one to get to, is a buy-out.