Tampa Bay Lightnings landed in TO

St-Pete's Gazette

After loosing so many important points during the major injuries that GM St-Pierre and the coaching staff had to go thru, The Tampa Bay Lightning landed in Toronto for tomorrow's game.

The Bolts challenges before the Soshi break.....the Tronto Maple Leafs, and the Detroit Red Wings.  The top two teams in the Eastern Division at the moment.

" This is the test for the Tampa Bay roster.  GM St-Pierre did many small trades to aquired some depth and to fill holes in their lines.  They sent away players like Johnsson, Palushaj, Stalberg who did good but not great and got in return Paajarvi, Chimera and Backlund." - Bob McKenzie tweeted this morning.

" It will be interesting to see how the Bolts line up will manage with all these changes" Coach Capuano told the Media.  " We got more stronger in size, but for sure it will help to have Pavelski, Hudler and Killorn in the line up at full force"

The Tampa Bay Lightning have been under GM St-PIerre for only it's second year and made the playoff on there first attemp.  But this year, with the new Atlantic division, they have more challenges than last year.  Teams like Detroit, Boston, Toronto and even last year Stanley Cup Champion, the Ottawa Senators are in the same boat as the Bolts.....Winning the Stanley Cup.

Gm St-Pierre is also happy with his farm team, the Syracuse Crunch.  Being in the botton of the standing, they gather themself, and climbed on the 6th spot on the Eastern division.  They have added Brown and Reaves who should boost their lineup for the rest of the season.

Tentative Lineup for tomorrow night....

Forward

Statsny - Seto - Burns

Pavelski - Hudler - Byfluglien

Stajan - Chimera - Ward

Backlund - Killorn - Paajarvi

Defencemen

Yandle - Burns

Byfluglien - Niskanen

Vlasic - Weircioch

Corvo - Potsma

Goalie

Al Montoya

Tomorrow night will be the debut of newly aquired Al Montoya in net for the Bolts!!!!

.........We also heard that the Bolts are still looking for a rental player to add more grit to their lineup...either a foward or a dman.....we heard also that they are looking for large contracts, due to the cap space created with Neuvirth out of Tammpa Bay.

John Lu - TSN