Tampa Bay Lightning {13th overall} Eastern Conference, Atlantic Division
Tampa Bay is one of three teams that finished their 41 home games with less than 10 losses and unfortunately, they were matched against one of the other three in the opening round of the 2023 NHL playoffs.
The Bolts added veteran winger Conor Sheary a proven playoff scorer, faceoff specialist, and shutdown checking forward Luke Glendenning, and in the draft Tampa Bay selected 37th overall in the second round Ethan Gauthier a six-foot winger.
In 10 seasons as the bench boss HC Jon Cooper has won two Stanley Cups and missed the playoffs just once [5 years ago] with no reason to suspect they will not return to these upcoming 2024 NHL playoffs with plans to progress past the first round.
Buffalo Winter 
The thing about Tampa Bay, if I remember correctly, is that they have an aging team which may or may not put them at a disadvantage.
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