NHL Expansion brings questions about realignment and scheduling
Two bids for new NHL teams, one in the east and one in the west. Is re-alignment necessary? Scheduling for the league may make it that way.
NHL Expansion
Speculating about Tampa Bay Lightning expansion trades
Reports have circulated that Steve Yzerman has a deal in place with the Vegas Golden Knights
Tampa Bay Lightning announce expansion draft protection list
JT Brown, Cedric Paquette, Jason Garrison, Jake Dotchin, and Slater Koekkoek among those exposed.
Tampa Bay Lightning trade Jonathan Drouin for Mikhail Sergachev
Steve Yzerman pulls off a major deal prior to the expansion draft.
Expanding realignment talk; Could Tampa Bay work in the Western Conference?
Expansion necessitates realignment for the NHL. Is a simple shift of the Lightning the way to solve things (temporarily)
NHL Expansion coverage
It has been a long running rumor that the National Hockey League will increase its ranks of member franchises from 30. Those rumors and innuendos have picked up substantially in 2014, starting around the Winter Olympics and then picking up again quite loudly in the late summer. In this stream