Key departures<\/p>\n
Darren Raddysh<\/a>, D:\u00a0The 30-year-old, who could have become an unrestricted free agent July 1, went to the Toronto Maple Leafs as part of a sign-and-trade on June 19, with Tampa Bay receiving a fifth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. Raddysh signed an eight-year contract as part of the deal. He had NHL career highs in goals (22), assists (48), points (70), plus\/minus (plus-21), power-play goals (10), power-play points (26), game-winning goals (six), shots on goal (212) and ice time per game (22:42) playing in 73 games. \u2026 Nick Paul<\/a>, F:\u00a0Traded to the Maple Leafs on July 1 as part of the deal for Hildeby. The 31-year-old had 15 points (seven goals, eight assists) in 51 games last season, his fifth with the Lightning. \u2026 Corey Perry<\/a>, F: Signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings on July 1. Perry started last season with the Kings, then was traded to the Lightning on March 6. The 41-year-old had nine points (six goals, three assists) in 22 games for the Lightning last season. \u2026\u00a0Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/a>, F: Signed a one-year contract with the New York Rangers on July 1. The 31-year-old had 32 points (12 goals, 20 assists) in 80 games last season, and ranked second on Tampa Bay with nine power-play goals. \u2026\u00a0Declan Carlile<\/a>, D:\u00a0Signed a two-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 1. The 26-year-old had three points (one goal, two assists) in 42 games for the Lightning last season.<\/p>\n On the cusp<\/p>\n Conor Geekie<\/a>, F:\u00a0Had three points (one goal, two assists) in 14 regular-season games and got into two games during the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the Lightning last season after appearing in 52 regular-season and four playoff games in 2024-25. The 22-year-old is in the final season of his three-year, entry-level contract and should get every chance to win a spot in the lineup, especially with Paul gone. \u2026\u00a0Dennis Hildeby, G: Likely to emerge as the backup to Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a>\u00a0after general manager Julien BriseBois said July 1 the team is looking to find a new NHL home for Jonas Johansson<\/a>, the Lightning’s backup goalie the past three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key departures Darren Raddysh, D:\u00a0The 30-year-old, who could have become an unrestricted free agent July 1, went to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-788637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}