It was my understanding they were already calling around on defensemen before the Sergachev injury, just to gage the market, see what upgrades might be out there for them. By March eighth, I think Julian Brezeba is going to know, is there a world Sergachev's back during the regular season? Because if he's not, he's basically got eight and a half million dollars now of LTIR space to play with. They've traded away a boatload of picks so that they're not left with as many as you would have to necessarily say that they're going to go out their big game hunting. But I think Julian Brezeba, honestly, for my money, is the best GM in the league. There's a world here. If Sergachev's out for 10 more weeks, essentially through the end of the regular season, Tampa could be in on basically anybody.

In terms of anybody, is it somebody that has to fit that style of play that Sergachev has? Who could they be looking for if it gets to that point where they feel they need somebody?

I would be looking for the non-obvious moves, for something that maybe solves a future problem and a current problem. The lightning, no matter what Julian ever says in front of the microphone, this year, we're not going to be big deadline players. They're always big deadline players.