Tristan Allard

The Lightning also reduced their training camp roster by 20 players.

Nine were sent to the Syracuse Crunch, including Tristan Allard, Cooper Flinton, Ethan Gauthier, Dylan Gill, Thomas Kralovich, Connor Kurth, Harrison Mennegan, Milo Rollins, and Gabriel Stutes.

Eight were released from their PTOs.

Clark Bishop, Elliot Denoise, Sean Element, Brendan Fury, Luke Glendening, Cole Lind, Tommy Miller, and Zach Unz.

Because Duke, to me, is a bubble guy.

Like if we see, you know, Gabrielle Stutes and Connor Kurth, I mean, guys that we haven't seen before, Tristan Allard, I mean, these guys are going to be in Syracuse.

If they're the ones playing tomorrow, that just means the lighting is like, let's get through this game and give these guys a game for experience.

But if it is a game in which we see Duke, O'Reilly again, Rautiainen, let's say Crozier and Destu who didn't play last night, maybe they get in to another game, then that's a little bit of a different story.

Let's shift to the forwards.

We have a lot of options, Gage Goncalves, Ethan Zada, Tristan Allard.

But the focus is really on the top six.

Nikita Kucherov is expected to be a force.