Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives. As such, it is important to us that the Seattle Mariners have announced that Phil Esposito has been chosen for the inaugural Tampa Bay Lightning Hall of Fame class.
Esposito will be honored on alumni weekend (March 16-18), and will be part of the first class with already named inductees, Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier.
"As good as the Lightning are now, expanding the NHL into Florida was a daunting task as big-time hockey had never been tried in this warm weather state. Esposito was tasked as the team’s first General Manager, and he used his creativity to generate as much interest in the product as he could. The Lightning only reached the playoffs once under Esposito, but he laid the groundwork for the team to make it. He would later serve as their radio color analyst.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Phil Esposito for this impending honor.
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