Nets and Bolts

Alan (Twitter: @loserpoints), site manager for Raw Charge, joins the show to discuss, chiefly, the Lightning's uneven play out of the gate, some players who have met or exceeded expectations, one particularly worrying development and the prospect of making a coaching change.

Matt Donders (Twitter: @mattdonders) joins the show to discuss the New Jersey Devils.

The Lightning kicked off their regular season with three games in four nights and one was something of a doozy; first signs of a resurgent Ondrej Palat; mulling how best to handle the club's next crop of RFAs; Vladdy on the move again.

Shane O'Donnell (Twitter: @shane1342o) of Litter Box Cats joins the show to put the past, present and future of the Florida Panthers into perspective.

The Lightning were in action three times in the second week of preseason games; the final roster is finally coming into focus (or is it?); how TB is bucking a couple league-wide trends and a suggestion for the Bolts; what to make of the team tweaking the positions of a couple players.

Alison Lukan (Twitter: @AlisonL) of The Athletic joins the show to discuss the Columbus Blue Jackets' recent past and put the team's present and future into perspective.

The Lightning were in action four times in the first week of preseason games; training camp began with a handful of presumed contenders for the final forward roster spots; all is no longer quiet on the Western Canadian front as Brayden Point made some headlines; it was (finally!) time to start hyping a particularly intriguing selection from June's draft.

NHL training camps are underway and the Tampa Bay Lightning have yet to sign Brayden Point. Mitch Marner's receives a new whopping second-contract but is it going to move the needle in negotiations or are internal dynamics going to carry the day?

An introductory episode for a new show centered around the Tampa Bay Lightning in which the host, Mike Gallimore, lays out some background info on himself, a general vision for the show and concludes by identifying some favorites.