In a surprising move, the Tampa Bay Lightning placed forward Alex Barré-Boulet on waivers this morning, as reported by Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
He has earned an NHL role after an explosive season in the AHL last year that saw him score 24 goals and 84 points in 69 games.
It wasn’t the prettiest of wins for the Tampa Bay Lightning as a determined Philadelphia Flyers squad hung around until the end, but the Bolts outlasted them to win, 6-3.
On Tuesday night against the Carolina Hurricanes, Alex Barre-Boulet circled around the net and fired a pass to his linemate Nikita Kucerov to set up a scoring opportunity.
A day after assigning Alex Barre-Boulet to Syracuse, the 26-year-old is back with the Tampa Bay Lightning following a recall Thursday afternoon. With their roster at the max of 23 players there will be a correlating move and it appears to be Tyler Motte heading to injured reserve.
An NHL All-Star Game representative in 2020, Rittich has not had the same success since, and he hit the waiver wire as a result.
They join a handful of former Bolts/Crunch in Laval Gabriel Dumont will captain the North Division alongside his teammates Alex Barre-Boulet and Darren Raddysh at the AHL All-Star Game on February 5th and 6th in Laval, Quebec.
The 2021-22 NHL season was both one to remember and forget for Alex Barre-Boulet. The Tampa Bay Lightning prospect went on an unexpected journey, as he was waived at the start of the season and was promptly claimed by the Seattle Kraken.
Around the league, I think a lot of people see the Avalanche Cup victory as the end of the line for the Lightning, but I don’t think they are done just yet. There may be very well be another championship in store for the Lightning.
Aspirations of a three-peat are still alive and well in Tampa Bay, where the Lightning are once again thriving in a tough division despite facing a variety of injuries all year.
The forward is added to the taxi squad prior to the Lightning’s back-to-back games this week Prior to their game against the Florida Panthers, the Tampa Bay Lightning recalled forward Alex Barre-Boulet from the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL and placed him on the taxi squad.
Syracuse Crunch lose to the Cleveland Monsters on Friday night Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Lightning reassigned forward Alex Barre-Boulet to the Syracuse Crunch.
Back to the AHL for BB. The Tampa Bay Lightning have assigned forward Alex Barre-Boulet to the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. Barre-Boulet was waived by the Lightning before opening night and he was claimed by the Seattle Kraken.
So far fourth-line Barre-Boulet his been okay For a waiver-wire pick-up there was a lot of excitement last week when it was announced that Alex Barre-Boulet was heading back to the Tampa Bay Lightning after a brief stint with the Seattle Kraken.
The Tampa Bay Lightning weren’t going to pass up the opportunity to bring back one of their own.
The Seattle Kraken have placed Alex Barre-Boulet on waivers.
A raise is undoubtedly in order for Cooper, who’s now guided the Lightning to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships.
Part of any NHL franchise is change. No matter how good or bad a team is, they will ultimately lose players that you really don’t want to see leave through a trade, free agency, or sometimes other means.
Barre-Boulet should be able to give the Lightning some desperately needed low-cost production.
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