The NHL regular season begins on Tuesday, October 11th for the Tampa Bay Lightning (and the whole league). We will get real, meaningful, NHL hockey in a mere seven days, woohoo!
And with the coming of the regular season means the end of preseason. The Lightning have not dressed their regular lineup for any of the team’s three games up to this point, so none of those results have been any kind of representative sample for the team this season, or at the very least what we can expect from players looking to fill open jobs.
This will change this weekend as the Lightning are set to play two games against the Florida Panthers on Thursday and Saturday, and with the Bolts camp roster dwindled down to 26 players, it will be the real team that we’ll see.