The Tampa Bay Lightning have announced their roster for the upcoming NHL Prospects Showcase. The friendly tournament is meant to get rookies and prospects playing against their peers in order to better help evaluate them. [NHL dot com]
The roster contains a number of the organization’s top prospects, including first-round picks Nolan Foote (2019) and his brother Cal Foote (2017). Also attending for the Lightning will be American Hockey League rookie scoring leader, forward Alex Barre-Boulet, who paced all AHL first-year players for points with 68 and tied teammate Carter Verhaeghe for the league’s goal-scoring lead with 34.