The Tampa Bay Lightning followed up their 62-win regular season with a 1st-round exit, and now they must deal with the salary-cap restrictions that'll make it hard to keep their team together for another run
, the Lightning have 16 players signed for 2019-20 for a combined cap hit a little north of $73 million. The NHL salary-cap ceiling is expected to reach $83 million for next season, but the Lightning have one of the biggest restricted free agents in the league to get signed.
Championship teams are built with strength down the middle , and Point and 29-year-old Steven Stamkos are as dangerous a one-two punch as you’ll find in the league.Toronto’s Auston Matthews received over the winter Tampa Bay has the resources to keep Point. The Lightning were able to get Stamkos to come in on an $8.5 million deal in the summer of 2016, and they got wing Nikita Kucherov to ink an eight-year deal worth $9.5 million last July, months before he started an Art Trophy-winning, and possibly Hart Trophy-winning, season that saw him accumulate 128 points.
While most of the Lightning’s current available cap space is going to land in Point’s bank account, a team that tied the NHL record with 62 wins but couldn't play beyond mid-April obviously needs to improve to avoid a similar fate next year. Restricted free agent forwards Cedric Paquette and Adam Erne, two important bottom-six forwards, may be hard to keep.
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