2015 NHL Draft: Tampa Bay Lightning draft review

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Photo: Mitchell Stephens had 48 points (22 goals, 26 assists) in 62 games with the OHL’s Saginaw Spirit in 2014-15. (Courtesy of Aaron Bell/CHL Images)


</p>Less than two weeks after his team lost in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals, Tampa Bay Lightning General Manager Steve Yzerman went back to work at maintaining a strong foundation for his team through the draft. With a young roster on the rise that perhaps arrived as a legitimate contender a year early, Yzerman didn’t have any particular needs to fill at the 2015 NHL Draft. Instead, he replenished his team’s system with players of quality character and skill.… read more

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[Werewolf]

"The strength of the Lightning’s prospect base is its quality and quantity of defensemen, and the addition of Spencer solidifies that notion". - Pretty good to hear this since all that has been talked about in the past has been about our forwards.

About Matt Spencer, "A supremely talented skater with decent size". I wrote somewhere that I thought it was Koekkoek when I first got to development camp. Don't sleep on Spencer this kid can play.