{"id":116194,"date":"2021-07-30T10:08:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=116194"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:19:52","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-re-sign-alexander-barre-boulet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/30\/tampa-bay-lightning-re-sign-alexander-barre-boulet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Re-sign Alex Barre-Boulet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barreal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Barre-Boulet<\/a> to a three-year deal at league minimum. His first year of the contract has a two-way clause while the final two years are one-way.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have signed forward Alex Barre-Boulet to a three-year contract worth $758,333 AAV. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdd: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rYnKUzEhyv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/rYnKUzEhyv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qleVF2PxZB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/qleVF2PxZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1421093887590944774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Alex Barre-Boulet Signs Three-Year Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Barre-Boulet was initially signed as an undrafted free agent back in 2018 during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/y\/yzermst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Yzerman<\/a> era. This was after an encouraging season, albeit as an over-ager in the QMJHL; he scored 53 goals and 116 points in 65 games for the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>So far the 24-year-old has played in only 15 NHL games and scored three times. When on the Lightning&#8217;s roster last season, Barre-Boulet featured mainly on the top line alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/palaton01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ondrej Palat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pointbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden Point<\/a>. All things considered, he fitted in well in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kucheni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a>&#8216;s absence. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/moneypuck.com\/lines.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Money Puck<\/a>, Barre Boulet on the top line yielded the best expected-goals share (61.1 percent) of any Lightning line with at least 100 minutes on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Though, the majority of his entry-level contract was played out in the AHL. As a member of the Syracuse Crunch, the Quebec native enjoyed consistent production over the last three seasons. In 144 games, he potted 69 goals and 136 points at a clip of 0.94 points per game.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For the Lightning<\/h3>\n<p>Signing Barre-Boulet was crucial as a cheap and calculated risk for Bolts&#8217; general manager Julien Brisebois. The 5&#8217;9&#8243;, 172-pound forward is likely to slot in on the third line and help fill the holes left by the free-agency exodus. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/goodrba01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barclay Goodrow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gourdya01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yanni Gourde<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/colembl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Coleman<\/a> all gone, the Lightning have had to rebuild what was arguably the most effective third line in hockey. But managing to slot in a proven scorer at the AHL level in Barre-Boulet alongside breakout centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coltoro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross Colton<\/a>, the third line is starting to look competitive even if it&#8217;s not a like-for-like comparison.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*QMJHL and AHL stats sourced via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/227670\/alex-barre-boulet\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elite Prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"WUuqTKiPSSlIUsPYaHKITA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1327565317\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'WUuqTKiPSSlIUsPYaHKITA',sig:'E3c3vr1uCsN-LHoG0X9f-x-sLOS3-8kUs8GZNZrPnOo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1327565317',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Alex Barre-Boulet to a three-year deal at league minimum. His first year of the contract has a two-way clause while the final two years are one-way. We have signed forward Alex Barre-Boulet to a three-year contract worth $758,333 AAV. \ud83d\udcdd: https:\/\/t.co\/rYnKUzEhyv pic.twitter.com\/qleVF2PxZB &mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":116195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,34,4548,9],"tags":[3112,6824,399],"class_list":["post-116194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-lightning","tag-alex-barre-boulet","tag-ross-colton","tag-steve-yzerman"],"modified_by":"Luke Flannigan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}