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The Tampa Bay Lightning have won over 1,000 regular season games, the 23rd-highest victory total among NHL teams. [2] They have also lost 1,000 games during the regular season, the ninth-lowest loss total in the NHL. [2] The Lightning have over 2,400 points in their 30 seasons, the tenth-lowest point total in the league. [2]
The Lightning finished last in penalty-kill % during the regular season (74.43%). [1]In the Lightning's very first NHL game on Wednesday, October 7, 1992, Chris Kontos scored the first hat trick in Lightning history as Tampa Bay defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 7-3 (the 7 goals would be the most that the Blackhawks would allow in a regular-season game that year).
The Lightning won the first three games of the series and had a chance to sweep the Canadiens; however, Montreal responded with wins in games 4 and 5 to extend the series to a sixth game. Tampa Bay won the sixth game of the series to eliminate the Canadiens and advance to the conference finals for the first time since 2011, facing the ...
Steven Stamkos is the Lightning's career regular season leader in goals, points, and games played. This is a list of franchise records for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (updated though the 2023–24 NHL season).
The city of Tampa paid $86 million and the Tampa Bay Lightning paid $53 million for the venue's construction and infrastructure. [9] It opened in 1996 as the Ice Palace. Its first event was a performance by the Royal Hanneford Circus. [10] The first hockey game was the Lightning hosting the New York Rangers, which the Lightning won 5–2. [11]
On the ice, the team couldn't match the hot start from 1992 to 1993, and quickly dropped to 3-12-2 by early November. However, a bit of NHL history was made early in the season when the first regular-season game at the ThunderDome, which drew an NHL-record 27,227 fans to watch the Lightning face the Panthers on October 9, 1993.
The record for a Stanley Cup playoff game, as well as for an NHL game played in a teams' regular home stadium, is 28,183, which was set on April 23, 1996, at the Thunderdome during a Tampa Bay Lightning – Philadelphia Flyers game. [1] A new record was set on December 11, 2010, when the University of Michigan's men's ice hockey team faced ...
The "Seasons" column lists the first year of the season of the player's first game and the last year of the season of the player's last game. For example, a player who played one game in the 2000–2001 season would be listed as playing with the team from 2000–2001, regardless of what calendar year the game occurred within.