Good morning and welcome to the first day of the 2022-23 NHL regular season! The Tampa Bay Lightning are going to kick things off against the New York Rangers tonight at Madison Square Garden with the hopes of eventually claiming their third Stanley Cup in four years. Or at the very least reach the Stanley Cup Final for the fourth year in a row, a feat that hasn’t been seen since the 70s and 80s dynasty Canadiens and Islanders.
As always in a salary cap league, the Bolts roster looked funky yesterday as the deadline for teams to become compliant hit.