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Lightning claim Pheonix Copley off of waivers

Let’s get the good news out of the way first. All of the players that the Tampa Bay Lightning put on waivers on Wednesday cleared. Nick Abruzzese, Boris Katchouk, and Jakob Pelletier were all assigned to the Syracuse Crunch on Thursday. So, the waivers monster didn’t claim any victims from the Lightning. In fact, it was just the opposite as general manager Julien BriseBois claimed goaltender Pheonix Copley from the Los Angeles Kings.

Cue the “Andrei Vasilevskiy is on death’s doorstep” panic on social media. Look, we’ll acknowledge that it is possible that Vasy is dealing with something a little larger than the team is letting on.