Good news for fans for the Tampa Bay Lightning: the Steven Stamkos reconstruction is progressing! At least, according to the Tampa Bay Times and the man himself.
“Things are going well,” Stamkos wrote to the Tampa Bay Times. “Feeling much better than where I was at the end of the season.”
While hopes were initially high that the injury-prone 27-year-old forward would be able to return by the end of the regular season to hope the Lightning in a playoff push, it simply was not to be.
Captain Stamkos is, of course, joined in the injury ward by Tampa Bay’s permanent alternate captain, Ryan Callahan, who is still rehabbing a nagging hip injury.