Hockey is back! And the Tampa Bay Lightning are once again your defending Stanley Cup Champions! It’s time for the 2021-22 NHL season to get under way and that also means it’s time for a season preview. What are some of the big story lines that will unfold through the year? Who’s a player to watch? And I’ll make a couple of predictions at the end. So let’s get into it.

Roster Turnover

The writing has been on the wall for the past few seasons, heck, really since 2015, that the Lightning were going to lose players because of the salary cap.