Twenty-four years ago today, the Tampa Bay Lightning had just finished celebrating one of the few happy times of the 1998-99 NHL season. They had successfully hosted the NHL All-Star Game - a sort of league-wide farewell for Wayne Gretzky who won the MVP award and would retire at the end of the season. One other thing happened that month, on this very day in fact:
On this day in 1999, the Lightning acquired Alexandre Daigle from the Oilers. The Flyers had traded Daigle to Edmonton earlier that day #Hockey365 #GoBolts pic.