Is it too much to say that Conor Geekie is the most important player on the Tampa Bay Lightning roster this season? Yes, of course it is. Geekie could score 50 goals this year, but if Andrei Vasilevskiy misses 30 games the Lightning are going to struggle. The same with Nikita Kucherov, Jake Guentzel, Brayden Point, Victor Hedman, Ryan McDonagh, so on and so forth.
So important, no, but intriguing, sure. We did this a couple of years ago with Brandon Hagel and some of the key points still stand. Geekie, like Hagel before him, could be the key to the Lightning having more than two lines with the capability to score.