Following a raft of injuries on defense, the Tampa Bay Lightning have assigned defenseman Ben Thomas to their Taxi Squad. Thomas was drafted by the Lightning in the fourth round of the 2014 draft lo those many years ago. Since then, Thomas has switched from forward to defense and become a steady presence on the Syracuse Crunch (for better or worse).
Thomas, 24, joins Taylor Raddysh, Gemel Smith, and Christopher Gibson as the four players on the team’s Taxi Squad. He sits as the seventh defenseman on the team after Luke Schenn and Andreas Borgman.