Bolts Prepare For Lockout – Send Players To Syracuse

As expected, the Tampa Bay Lightning have assigned 18 players to Syracuse (AHL) in advance of the pending lockout. All of these players did not have to clear waivers to be sent down.

The players that were assigned are:  Forwards Brett Connolly, JT Brown, Cory Conacher, Danick Gauthier, Richard Panik, Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn, Vladislav Namestnikov, Ondrej Palat, Alex Hutchings, defensemen Mark Barberio, Radko Gudas, Dmitry Korobov, Charles Landry, Dan Milan and goalies Dustin Tokarski, Riku Helenius and Pat Nagle.

Forward JT Wyman was placed on waivers for the purpose of being sent to Syracuse.

Forwards Pierre-Cedric Labrie and Mike Angelidis , along with defensemen Evan Oberg, Keith Aulie and Matt Taormina most certainly will be signed to AHL contracts to avoid going through waivers.

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