The Lighting paid a steep price — two first-round picks — for Gourde and Bjorkstrand but they're two players who should fit in perfectly.

The Tampa Bay Lightning shook up their lines in a major way by acquiring Yanni Gourde and Oliver Bjorkstrand in a blockbuster deal with the Seattle Kraken.

Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois has never been hesitant to trade first-round draft picks in the name of trying to win a Stanley Cup now. And in what had become a seller’s market ahead of Friday’s 3 p.