TAMPA, Fla. — With every failed relationship, there is a breaking point.



And with the strange saga of top Lightning goalie prospect Connor Ingram, traded to Nashville on Friday for a 2021 7th-round draft pick, the last straw may have been a one-on-one meeting with GM Julien BriseBois in late March.



Ingram, 22, an AHL All-Star just a few months prior, had been mysteriously demoted from Tampa Bay’s AHL affiliate in Syracuse to Orlando in the ECHL, where he was getting ample playing time for the Solar Bears. But with Syracuse hit hard by injuries, goalies Eddie Pasquale and Martin Oulette going down, Ingram was recalled to the Crunch.



The Lightning were open to a clean slate, willing to move on from the “internal matter” they continuously tried to work through before his demotion. BriseBois flew to Syracuse to meet with Ingram face to face before his first practice back.



“That’s where things were said — that was...