That Syracuse roster getting pretty crowded. Hope the Lightning announce an official ECHL affiliate. We have 9 draft picks this draft to go along with the 9 we drafted last year. Last year we moved some underperforming assets, for example: Cote, Dalton Smith, Kunyk, Deschamps, Korobov, Costello, Nightingale, Gauthier, Lynch, Milan, Samson, Sergeev, Nielsen, and O'Donnell. That is quite a list of ex-Crunch players coming into 2016-16 season. Coming into this season we don't have anywhere near this amount of underperfoming players.
UFA players: McGinn, Angelidis, Blunden, Tambellini, Witkowksi, and Taormina. They all have played pretty well and most spending time with the Lightning. That is a pretty solid veteran group for the Syracuse Crunch.
RFA players: Richard, Vermin, Gourde, Paradis, Broll, Gudlevskis, Wilcox. Broll is the only one really out of this group that can be let go. The other ones are still yet to get their chance in Tampa but are making a good case for future call ups like Richard, Vermin, Gourde, and Gudlevskis.
Point, Tammela, Masin, and Thomas coming into the organization. Imama and DiGiacinto are the other ones that could possibly come over to Pro as well after their season is over.
Very, very crowded roster in Syracuse. Interesting decisions must be made.