The Tampa Bay Lightning crossed off another item on the offseason checklist as they extended contract offers to seven of their Restricted Free Agents. Alex Barre-Boulet, Ross Colton, Boris Katchouk, Taylor Raddysh, Otto Somppi, Sean Day, and Cal Foote all received qualifying offers from the club. Starting today, other clubs have the ability to start chatting with the RFAs about possibly extending an offer sheet (always talked about, but never happens) and then on the 28th RFAs can start accepting the deals.
The seven players who were sent the QO’s were pretty much no-brainers. If there was a little more depth in the system on defense, Sean Day may not have received an offer, but since they are a little light on defense, it makes sense to at least keep him from leaving in free agency right away.