
His 48 playoff goals trail only Nikita Kucherov's 52. His plus-147 rating is tied with Victor Hedman for the best in franchise history and his playoff contributions have been a huge part of the Lightning's postseason success over the past decade-plus. Now, he ranks seventh all-time in Tampa Bay franchise history with 628 regular-season games played and 423 points.
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You look at a player like Palat, who spent two full seasons in the AHL before joining the Lightning on a full-time basis. "The guys that have been really good players for us, if you look - a lot of them have spent a number of years in the American Hockey League after finishing their junior or college," Murray said.

Once a league that had a heavy veteran presence, the AHL has transformed into more of a development league with a number of young, talented prospects. In today's day and age, a lot of a draft pick's development is happening in the American Hockey League. "Then, they get turned over to our player development people, who we think do an outstanding job at helping those guys maximize their potential." "We think we do a pretty good job at finding players with the raw materials that our people want," said Murray. From there, the players get picked and the development rolls on. Those qualities will remain private between Murray and his crew, but it's up to them to get out and identify players that possess some of those traits. There are certain qualities that Murray and his staff are looking for in young prospects. "We view it as a real challenge to try to find players in those later rounds that'll develop into NHL prospects and players." Cedric Paquette was taken in the fourth round in 2012. Ross Colton was a fourth-round pick in 2016. Ondrej Palat was a seventh-round selection in 2011. Murray, an assistant general manager and the director of amateur scouting for Tampa Bay, has been with the Bolts since 2010 and there have been plenty of late-round hits along the way. With the majority of the Lightning's picks coming in the latter half of the draft, it will be up to Al Murray and his staff to find a few diamonds in the rough to join the organization. Within the past few months, we also saw Anterra Capital announce its second global food and agriculture tech fund of $260 million and Vine Ventures close on $140 million, half of which will go into Israeli startups.In 2019, Tampa Bay used their first-round pick (27th overall) to select Nolan Foote, who was later traded to New Jersey, along with Vancouver's conditional first-round selection in 2020, in exchange for Blake Coleman. Meanwhile, Simple Food Ventures made a first close toward its $15 million fund for healthier grocery store staples. Conversion Capital earlier this week announced a new $122 million fund to back early-stage fintech and infrastructure startups. For example, earlier this week, Drive Capital said it raised another $1 billion to invest in startups located in the middle of the country, bringing its assets under management to $2.2 billion. The VC firm is not alone in raising new funds lately. The firm’s future investments, it said, would now flow through a “singular, permanent structure” called The Sequoia Fund.


The storied venture capital firm announced that it was breaking with tradition, abandoning the traditional fund structure and their artificial timelines for returning LP capital. Last October, TechCrunch reported on Sequoia Capital debuting a big shift in strategy as it looked to boost its returns amid increased competition in the market for startup financing. Colleagues reported Sequoia telling them, “With the cost of capital (both debt and equity) rising, the market is signaling a strong preference for companies who can generate cash today.” This news comes out just over a month after the venture capital giant told founders that it was expecting a longer economic recovery. Those funds are expected to close in July. growth fund focused on later-stage companies and a $750 million fund targeting earlier-stage startups. The publication reported that Menlo Park-based Sequoia is looking at $1.5 billion for a U.S. Sequoia Capital is the latest to reportedly be raising two new U.S.-focused funds, valued at up to $2.25 billion, The Information reported earlier this week. Venture capital investments may be slower, but that seems to be giving venture capital firms some time to go out and raise funds of their own.
