With the news coming out that Ray Emery would be signing a tryout deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning as a candidate to replace the injured Andrei Vasilevskiy, it got everybody thinking about his potential role for the upcoming season. It actually isn’t that hard to decipher. Though we cannot read the minds of Lightning coaches and executives, we have a general idea of what Emery will be accomplishing during his time in a Tampa Bay Lightning uniform.
In what looks to be a potential development, You could see the 33-year-old Emery slotted as Ben Bishops backup come the start of the 2015-16 regular season.