Free agency officially opens in July, and the Tampa Bay Lightning figure to be extremely busy either trying to retain some key members from the team or find their replacements.
And while we here at Bolts by the Bay have chronicled free agents the Lightning could try and go after, there are also going to be a number of players on the market that Tampa needs to stay away from heading into the 2023-24 season.
We are factoring in what we think their production will be in 2023-24 as well as what their contract will likely be and if it makes sense for Tampa to pay that price.