Apparently according to The Hockey News, Meszaros got dealt to the Lightning. Now this wouldn't be unusual, except for a few things. First, Meszaros kind of sucks. And the Lightning paid a shit-ton for signing him. Rather, they tried to, which brings us to point two: he's an RFA. For those of you unfamiliar with that, it means that his team (Senators) have the right to sign him first, and anyone else trying needs to compensate them with draft picks. In this case, the first three rounds.
But (lastly), oops. Tampa traded its third round pick (among others) to the Penguins for exclusive signing rights to players the Pens were losing anyway. So now they have to ask the Penguins permission to get one back. Not surprisingly, Shero said no.
When you are a certain level of joke, or you're playing an NHL video game, you only sign forwards and then have to ask another team to overpay a shitty defenseman. In real life, this is called the Tampa Bay (South Pittsburgh) Lightning.
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