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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).
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).
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 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.
Tampa Bay Lightning forwards Mathieu Joseph, Gemel Smith and Daniel Walcott created a special and significant moment in hockey history on Monday.
According to the 2011 NHL Guide and Record Book, the NHL includes the 2004–05 season in its count of seasons. For example, the 2011 NHL Guide lists the Tampa Bay Lightning as entering their 19th 'NHL Season', although a count of the Lightning's seasons of play would determine the 2010–11 season to be their 18th season of play. [1]
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]