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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]
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 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's dramatic improvement continued through the 2003–04 regular season, finishing with a record of 46–22–8–6 for 106 points, second-best in the NHL after the Western Conference's Detroit Red Wings—the first 100-point season in franchise history. The Lightning lost only 20 man-games to injury.
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 NHL record is 12 games, done first by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2005-06 season and then matched by the Minnesota Wild in the 2014-15 season. Florida can match that mark Thursday with a win ...
In game four, the Lightning, desperate for a victory, could not overcome the early two-goal deficit they faced in the first period, allowing Columbus to score three empty-net goals late in the third period and win 7–3, sweeping Tampa Bay 4–0 and earning their first playoff series victory in franchise history. The Lightning became the first ...
The NHL on Friday morning announced dates, times and TV coverage plans for all eight first-round matchups of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, including the Florida Panthers vs the Tampa Bay Lightning.