Lightning Round: Why do we love rookies so much?

Scott Thomas PhotographyIt’s always interesting to see which posts spark discussion around here. We as editors can look at a piece and think it’s great and it goes nowhere. Sometimes we throw something together in roughly five minutes and it’s the most popular post of the month. One thing we do usually know is that when we post something about a trade or a suspension, people will have opinions.

That’s why it was nice to see Geo’s post about Cal Foote garner a lot of comments (well for us) here and over on our Facebook page. In a year where it seems the Lightning have called up more rookies in a season than at any time since the great TampaCuse invasion of 2012-13, it was logical to ponder if…