Today the Utah Hockey Club and Tampa Bay Lightning have both been incredibly busy making trades both with each other and other teams. First the Utah Hockey Club and Tampa Bay Lightning partnered on a trade sending Mikhail Sergachev to Utah for D JJ Moser, C Conor Geekie, 2025 2nd Rd Pick, 2024 7th Rd Pick (No. 199 overall). <q>Trade details: To #UtahHC: D Mikhail Sergachev To #GoBolts: D JJ Moser, C Conor Geekie, 2025 2nd Rd Pick, 2024 7th Rd Pick (No. 199 overall) No salary retained. Tampa clears $8.5 million off the books, well more than enough to keep Steven Stamkos if desired.</q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1807080391531962618'> </a></blockquote></div> The trade clears space for the Tampa Bay Lightning to continue to operate and potentially sign Steven Stamkos. Then the Utah Hockey Club doubled down trying to rebuild and build up their defense trading for John Marino. <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1807080813218963573'> </a></blockquote></div> <q>We have acquired John Marino and pick 153 in return for pick 49 and a 2025 2nd round pick.</q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/utahhockeyclub/status/1807084472070004898'> </a></blockquote></div> After the John Marino acquisition by the Utah Hockey Club the Tampa Bay Lightning followed it up again with another trade. This time trading Tanner Jeannot to the Los Angeles Kings for draft picks further clearing up space. <q>Bill Daly announces Tampa trades Tanner Jeannot to LA Kings</q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/pierrevlebrun/status/1807083264911331666'> </a></blockquote></div> <q>The Lightning have traded Tanner Jeannot to the Kings for a second-round pick in 2025 and the 118th pick this year Tampa is making lots of moves </q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/BR_OpenIce/status/1807083668596253019'> </a></blockquote></div> This flurry of moves has cleared a ton of salary cap space for the Tampa Bay Lightning to operate this summer. They will now likely take a bigger run at signing Steven Stamkos. For the Utah Hockey Club, they are trying to get into the playoff race in the West. New owner Ryan Smith has wanted his team to be aggressive in improving and now they add a pair of top 4 defensemen to a roster who struggled mightily defensively.