NHL Rumors: Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado Avalanche and Montreal Canadians

Lightning in Tampa Bay is still on surveillance

Benjamin Pierce: Julien Brisebois, general manager of Tampa Bay Lightning, Free agency the second day.

“We will continue to observe from now to the trade deadline. It’s a luxury we’ve never had in the past (capital space). It could also mean we can carry more players with us and there’s more internal competition on ice time, which is healthy, but I don’t want us to be very active.”

Colorado Avalanche is evaluating ways to improve free agents and trade markets

Evan Rawal: Colorado Avalanche talks with their UFA defender Erik Johnson and a few others. GM Chris Macfarland said they will sit down to evaluate what is still there.

The free agent market doesn’t have much impact and can improve their team at a reasonable price. They will look at the trade market.

Although possible, it would be a surprise if they did nothing before starting camp.

Montreal Canadians don’t want to do everything at once

Stage 4: Montreal Canadians General Manager Kent Hughes thinks they are better teams on paper, but he will continue to call the team to see if there is a way to make them better. Kirby Dach may be the second-tier center on their opening day, but they are still on the market for 2C.

“The reality is that we don’t put together the perfect teams in a summer,” Hughes said. “We recognize that we have other things to do…I can’t see us getting everything done at once.”

Canadians and St. Louis Bruce were unable to trade Jordan Kyrou, so they traded Logan Mailloux to Zach Bolduc.

Rumors have been made that Canadians could consider trading Brendan Gallagher and Mike Matheson. Gallagher is not expected to trade. Matheson hit $4.875 million in blocking percentage, and in the last year of his trade, there were no eight untrade lists.

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