Tampa Bay Lightning 2024-25 NHL Season Preview | The Steve Dangle Podcast

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1. He is a great goalie

2. not to mention a lot of rumblings that Geekie will make the day 1 roster

3. I think losing Sergachev is gonna hurt them more than they realize. McDonaugh is too old to be a reliable replacement imo. They're a playoff lock, but I'm not convinced they can contend with the Rangers or Panthers

4. The teams 5 on 5 offense was one of the worst it’s been in ages. Not to mention the lack of forward defensive responsibility. Also an angry big cat will suck to play against.

5. DO NOT SLEEP ON LILLIBERG ON THR D!

6. Like all team in the Atlantic…the Lightning are good, but is really unstable. The reason for them ? They are one injurie away in defense, offense or net to crumble like a house of cards ! Too many years in a row in playoff, i'm not sure they have enough gas in the tank…It might be this year or next year, but the drop will happened ! I put them at 4 at best, Kucherov, Point and Hedman can't do everything again !!

7. This is a team that has to prove everyone wrong, I think they will have a big chip on their shoulders and that's fine with them! Don't ever count out the Lightning

8. I think the biggest question mark for Tampa this year is can they still have one of the best powerplays in league without Stamkos? That powerplay won them a lot of games, but it was only as lethal as it was because Stamkos and Kuch both have deadly one timers so you couldn't cover both reliably. Adding Guenztel doesn't really fix this because him and Kuch are both left shots so they're either going to have to have to change their entire powerplay structure or make up for these goals at 5 on 5.

9. My "hot-take" is that Guentzel will score a lot more points than Stamkos, hence so will Point & Kucherov. Will that be enough to beat the Rangers and/or Panthers in the playoffs remains to be seen….

10. Guentzel is on a 7y contract

11. Connor Geekie is going to make this team. Watch for this dude.