In a salary cup era the Tampa Bay Lightning have been without a doubt one of the best teams, if not the absolute best. Say what you want about them and their salary cap trickery, Lightning's General Manager, Julien BriseBois put together a very good team that almost won three years in a row.
Palat who scored a lot of important goals during the Lightning's run asked if they could offer him a deal similar to Nick Paul, which would allow him to stay. Nick Paul signed a 7-year deal with a cap hit of $3,150,000 per year.
Palat would ultimately sign a five year $30 million dollar deal with the New Jersey Devils, that has an annual salary of $6 million dollars. It proves some players aren't all about the money he was going to sign for almost half of what he got from the Devils.
