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NHL Power Rankings #1: Tampa Bay Lightning
The Lightning are coming off a Stanley Cup appearance. While they didn’t really improve their team, they didn’t need to. They have a perfect combination of young forwards and veterans to guide them. Tampa Bay will be relying on the triplets line of Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov, and Ondrej Palat to continue to grow and dominate their competition.
Like the Ducks, the Lightning are a very deep team. However, can Ben Bishop lead this team to a Stanley Cup? He has no excuses if he doesn’t.
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