Darren Raddysh had to wait a little bit for his first career NHL goal to be confirmed last night after his shot on the Lightning’s second goal of the game in a 6-3 loss to the New York Rangers was initially credited to him. It was later changed to having gone off Brandon Hagel, only for the goal to be given back to Raddysh a couple hours after the final horn.
Tampa makes it a one goal game đź‘€ pic.twitter.com/SCiJeB4a83
— NHLonTNT (@NHL_On_TNT) April 6, 2023
The 27-year-old rookie now has one goal and two assists in 13 games for the Lightning this season. He is also signed at about league minimum for next season.
THE GOAL'S BACK TO RADDY.
Congrats on your first @NHL Goal, Darren!! pic.twitter.com/y3cvnliVTL
— x – Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) April 6, 2023
Here is Justin’s recap from that loss to the Rangers.

As well as Dave Mishkin’s thoughts after the game.

Here is a feature video on Syracuse Crunch forward Shawn Element after his long road back from injury.
The Chicago Wolves are attempting to go out on their own as they plan to not have an NHL affiliation next season. That means no road to the NHL for their players, no prospects on ELCs or depth contracts, all while managing under the league’s veteran rules. The Wolves management and ownership have been complaining for a while that they want more autonomy with roster construction, and on one hand they’ll get it, but I don’t think they’ll be able to find a whole roster worth of non-veteran AHLers without skyrocketed salaries to compensate for zero chances of being in the NHL. Good luck to them, I guess.
Friedman on TJMS says the Chicago Wolves of the AHL sent out an email to all the agents yesterday saying they are planning to become independent next season, not having any NHL affiliate.
— NHL Watcher (@NHL_Watcher) April 5, 2023
The AHL has a veteran rule, you can only dress six skaters that have played more than 260 career games by league bylaws. So any AHL team that went independent would have a huge challenge of fielding a lineup.
— Sean Shapiro (@seanshapiro) April 5, 2023
The Boston Bruins cannot activate Taylor Hall during the regular season without putting a big contract on LTIR, so are they just lying about this as an injury at this point? I thought the NHL said they were going to investigate stuff like this now.
Montgomery is characterizing Hall’s availability for tomorrow as “doubtful”, but not totally ruling him out.
He adds that getting Hall some regular-season reps “would be ideal.”
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) April 5, 2023