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Scouting the 2019 NHL Draft: Defenseman Matthew Robertson fits the Lightning mold

The Tampa Bay Lightning have a pretty deep farm system with a lot of quality forwards. The weaknesses of the system though come in the form of the blue line and in net. The goaltender situation probably isn’t as dire as the Lightning have some prospects that represent lottery tickets that could become back-ups in the NHL at some point. But the blue line is looking pretty thin after Cal Foote, especially with the graduation of Erik Cernak to the NHL.

For that reason, Matthew Robertson was a player I started to focus in on when our staff was working on the SBNation Mock Draft.