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Lightning need to zap blue line 'crater'

By Gabriel Desjardins and E.J. Hradek
Puck Prospectus/ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Plugging Holes - Tampa Bay Lightning The Hole: Defense ( … and more defense) Tampa finds itself in a difficult situation. It has a bad team, but with the Islanders selecting Victor Hedman (in our scenario), they get John Tavares in the draft. Normally a No. 2 pick -- think Evgeni Malkin, Eric Staal, Dany Heatley, Jason Spezza -- fills one of the many holes on the 29th-best team in the league. However, Tampa already has two offensive centers in Vincent Lecavalier and Steven Stamkos, who ha ...

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