No team can sustain a winning culture without the ability to draft and develop younger players. Through the leadership of General Manager Steve Yzerman and Director of Amateur Scouting Al Murray, the Tampa Bay Lightning have developed a pipeline of impressive young prospects that have the ability to contribute at the NHL level.
Ranked in the top-5 in every major magazines NHL orgizational prospect rankings, the team has committed itself on building for both a succesful present and future. The “Yzerplan” as many have called it has produced players such as Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat, Andrei Vasilevskiy, and Jonathan Drouin.