The Tampa Bay Lightning have had quite the run over the the last 3 seasons. Making it to the Stanley Cup final 3 years in a row and winning two is quite the accomplishment, but with that much success, comes off-season cap casualty's.
Today's trade when the Lightning shipped veteran defender Ryan McDonagh out of town for Philippe Myers and Grant Mismash. From the sounds of it, Tampa GM Julien BriseBois wasn't happy a key part of his blueline needed to be shipped out, even going so far as to take a shot at NHL commissionaire Gary Bettman per Joe Smith of The Athletic:
I'm sure most GM's around the National Hockey League are fed up with the hard cap being in the game today, however, this is the first time I can remember a GM openly taking a shot at the commissioner of the game like this, and rightly so.
