Lightning select D Radim Salda in seventh round

Salda is a left-shot defenseman who played for Saint John in the QMJHL last season

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With the first of its two picks in the Seventh Round, Tampa Bay grabbed Radim Salda, a six-foot, left-shot defenseman at No. 206.

Salda played for Saint John of the QMJHL during the 2017-18 season and registered 10 goals and 41 points in 62 games for the Sea Dogs.
The 19-year-old Salda is from the Czech Republic. Salda is the third defenseman selected by the Lightning in the 2018 NHL Draft.

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