Injuries happen in sports, but the way you deal with them in today’s NHL in more important than ever. You see it all the time with some of the best teams in the league; they may lose a couple of players, but they continue to win games. Teams with the best depth tend to survive these kinds of situations, and the Tampa Bay Lightning are one of those teams.
So far this season, eight players have been called up to the NHL club from the team’s AHL affiliate in Syracuse to fills holes on the roster. Beginning this year, it was Kristers Gudlevskis between the pipes while Andrei Vasilevskiy was recovering from offseason surgery.