BRANDON – There are not many things in hockey that truly inventive.
But two weeks in to the season, the Tampa Bay Lightning are doing some re-inventing of what means to have a top-nine utilizing fractured line combinations that feature all of the team’s top forwards.
While Tampa Bay’s line combinations have been relatively constant since opening night, there is one that is in constant flux – call it the TKO line. Tyler Johnson with Alex Killorn and Other.
As the Lightning have dressed a lineup with 11 forwards, it leaves the team one short of the normal allotment of forwards so the line combin...
