Scott Wheeler of The Athletic wrote his yearly ranking of newly drafted prospects, and our writer Lauren noticed right away that no Tampa Bay Lightning draftees made the top 50 list. This is fine. In the words of Loserpoints: “I think that’s fair. The Lightning pipeline has been quantity over quality for a while now. I looked at the list and I can’t really make a strong case for anyone to be above the players on the list.” And GeoFitz says, “I’ve been saying that about Lightning rankings for the past 3+ years. We almost always get [pooped] on for our drafting because we’re not drafting high, and we almost always get [pooped] on for our farm system because we have a lot of good depth, but no super stars because we’re not drafting high.
Quick Strikes: No Tampa Bay Lightning prospects make Scott Wheeler’s top 50 drafted prospects list
