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Retaining Mikhail Sergachev puts the Tampa Bay Lightning over the salary cap. The LA Kings should target these three players to improve the roster.
The NHL’s free agency frenzy came and went with the LA Kings acquiring only Olli Maatta to shore up the defense’s left side. I was clamoring for the organization to offer sheet Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev.
Before the club re-signed him on Wednesday, Tampa had just under $3M in available cap space. Offer sheets are rarely used these days, but Sergachev, at 22 years of age, is an incredible talent that would have been an enormous upgrade on the left side of the blue line.