Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey Odds at SBG Global

The Lightning made more off-season changes than any other team according to hockey odds. Let’s take a look at how the hockey betting odds could change in 2008-2009 on the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Hockey odds information shows that the Lightning hired former Los Angeles Kings head coach Barry Melrose. It has been a long time since Melrose has been behind the bench but fans and players in Tampa Bay seem to be energized by their new head coach. Melrose wasted no time in reshaping the roster. According to hockey odds information the Lightning added forwards Ryan Malone, Gary Roberts, Vaclav Prospal, David Koci, Mark Recchi, Radim Vrbata, Brandon Bochenski, Adam Hall and Steven Stamkos. They added defensemen Andrew Hutchinson, Andrej Meszaros and Matt Carle. They also picked up goaltender Olaf Kozig according to hockey betting odds information. The team no longer has forwards Craig MacDonald, Andre Roy, Tim Thomas and Mathieu Darche according to hockey odds information. They also lost defensemen Doug Janik, Filip Kuba, Dan Boyle and Brad Lukowich according to hockey betting odds info. Goaltender Marc Denis is also gone according to hockey odds information.

There are a lot of questions in Tampa Bay but Melrose definitely is remaking the team into his image. That will mean solid goaltending and tough play. Tampa now has a number of veteran forwards that know how to do battle. Whether or not Kolzig has anything left in goal is another question according to hockey odds experts. Mike Smith did not look like the answer last year after coming over from Dallas. There is no question that getting older players like Roberts and Recchi to produce will be needed if the Lightning are to impact hockey odds this year. Keeping Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis around will mean that Tampa has two solid scorers that can impact hockey betting odds. Vaclav Prospal is also a player that can impact hockey odds.

The key according to hockey odds experts is getting the team to gel under Melrose. There is enough talent for Tampa to impact hockey odds if Melrose gets it all together and if Tampa gets solid goaltending.