With the season-opening deadline fast approaching and the majority of their preseason games behind them, it’s time to take an educated guess as to what the Tampa Bay Lightning’s roster will look like when it kicks the season off against Carolina on Friday. A couple of injuries over the last week have clouded things a bit, but despite the exceptional play of some of the rookies, there aren’t likely to be too many surprises.
Currently, the skating wounded list consists of Luke Glendening, Mikey Eyssimont, and Gage Goncalves. None of the injuries seem to be long-term, and general manager Julien BriseBois would like to avoid using LTIR as much as possible to bank some salary cap room for roster tweaking later in the season.