The rest break is over and it’s time for the Tampa Bay Lightning to get down to playing some hockey. As we mentioned last week, there is a metric ton of hockey on the way for the Lightning. They won’t have more than a day off between games until the end of March while enduring four more back-to-backs by that time.
It will be up to Coach Cooper and his staff to figure out how to manage the players time on the ice. The multiple back-to-backs will get Brian Elliott into games on a regular basis, but what will he do for the skaters?