Tampa Bay Lightning
  Arena: The Ice Palace (Arena Class) - Capacity: 23,000/28,000
  General Manager: Dan Hooper
  Franchise Date: August 10, 1999

TBL

  Current Coach: Alain Vigneault
 
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Season-by-Season Team Standings
Season # GP W L T Pts GF GA Win% Conference Division
Season 1 86 46 35 5 97 261 233 .563 5th, Wales 4th, Patrick
Season 2 86 47 33 6 100 269 259 .581 3rd, Wales 3rd, Patrick
Season 3 86 30 50 6 66 240 313 .383 14th, Wales 7th, Patrick
Season 4 84 30 41 13 73 275 317 .434 15th, Wales 6th, Patrick
Season 5 86 45 32 9 99 282 252 .575 3rd, Wales 2nd, Patrick
Season 6 86 35 32 19 89 298 300 .517 7th, Wales 4th, Patrick
Season 7 86 43 39 4 90 328 325 .523 7th, Wales 4th, Patrick
Season 8 86 39 42 5 83 307 324 .482 11th, Wales 6th, Patrick
Season 9 86 51 26 9 111 328 279 .645 2nd, Wales 1st, Patrick
Season 10 84 50 31 3 103 312 255 .613 2nd, Wales 1st, Patrick
Totals 856 416 361 79 911 2900 2857 .532 -- --
 
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Playoff History

 
Season 1
Wales Conference Quarter Finals
 

(5) Tampa Bay

Washington (4)

 

Capitals win Conference Quarter Finals 4-3
  Game #1 - Lightning 5 at Capitals 1
  Game #2 - Lightning 2 at Capitals 1
  Game #3 - Capitals 1 at Lightning 3
  Game #4 - Capitals 3 at Lightning 2
  Game #5 - Lightning 1 at Capitals 4
  Game #6 - Capitals 7 at Lightning 1
  Game #7 - Lightning 2 at Capitals 4
 
Season 2
Wales Conference Quarter Finals
 

(4) Tampa Bay

Washington (5)

 

Capitals win Conference Quarter Finals 4-1
  Game #1 - Capitals 3 at Lightning 2
  Game #2 - Capitals 3 at Lightning 1
  Game #3 - Lightning 2 at Capitals 4
  Game #4 - Lightning 2 at Capitals 0
  Game #5 - Capitals 4 at Lightning 1
 
Season 3
Failed to Make Playoffs
 
Season 4
Failed to Make Playoffs
 
Season 5
Wales Conference Quarter Finals
 

(3) Tampa Bay

Pittsburgh (6)

 

Penguins win Conference Quarter Finals 4-3
  Game #1 - Penguins 4 at Lightning 5
  Game #2 - Penguins 3 at Lightning 5
  Game #3 - Lightning 4 at Penguins 5
  Game #4 - Lightning 3 at Penguins 2
  Game #5 - Penguins 5 at Lightning 2
  Game #6 - Lightning 3 at Penguins 8
  Game #7 - Penguins 5 at Lightning 3
 
Season 6
Wales Conference Quarter Finals
 

(7) Tampa Bay

New York (2)

 

Islanders win Conference Quarter Finals 4-0
  Game #1 - Lightning 0 at Islanders 4
  Game #2 - Lightning 4 at Islanders 6
  Game #3 - Islanders 3 at Lightning 1
  Game #4 - Islanders 4 at Lightning 2
 
Season 7
Wales Conference Quarter Finals
 

(7) Tampa Bay

Hartford (2)

 

Whalers win Conference Quarter Finals 4-0
  Game #1 - Lightning 4 at Whalers 6
  Game #2 - Lightning 2 at Whalers 4
  Game #3 - Whalers 5 at Lightning 1
  Game #4 - Whalers 9 at Lightning 1
 
Season 8
Failed to Make Playoffs
 
Season 9
Wales Conference Quarter Finals
 

(2) Tampa Bay

New York (7)

 

Islanders win Conference Quarter Finals 4-3
  Game #1 - Islanders 4 at Lightning 2
  Game #2 - Islanders 3 at Lightning 5
  Game #3 - Lightning 4 at Islanders 2
  Game #4 - Lightning 7 at Islanders 6
  Game #5 - Islanders 5 at Lightning 3
  Game #6 - Lightning 2 at Islanders 4
  Game #7 - Islanders 6 at Lightning 4
 

Awards

 

Season 3

Calder Trophy

Jani Rita
(23 goals - 48 assists - 71 points)
The Calder Trophy is awarded to the best rookie
 

Season 5

Vezina Trophy Bob Johnson Award
Garth Snow
(2.57 GAA)
Tampa Bay Lightning
(+26)
The Vezina Trophy is awarded to the goalie with the lowest goals against average (40 games) The Bob Johnson Award is awarded to the most improved team, points-wise (regular season)

Dryden-Esposito Award Jim Robson All-League Team
Garth Snow
(.905 save %)
Garth Snow
(goaltender)
The Dryden-Esposito Award is awarded to the goalie with the highest save percentage (40 games) The Jim Robson All-League team is presented to the best player at his position
 

Season 9

Bob Johnson Award The "Currently Unnamed But One Day We're Going to Find a Fitting Title to This Trophy" Trophy
Tampa Bay Lightning
(+28)
Alex Tousignant
(Tampa Bay Lightning)
The Bob Johnson Award is awarded to the most improved team, points-wise (regular season) The "Currently Unnamed But One Day We're Going to Find a Fitting Title to This Trophy" Trophy is awarded to the Best New General Manager in the GFHL. To qualify, a GM must have been named after the trade deadline of the preceding season

Glenn Hall Award
Brian Finley
(50W-25L-9T, 3.15 GAA)
The Glenn Hall Award is awarded to the best goaltender as voted by the General Managers
 

Player of the Week Awards

 
Week
Position Player Stats
11/12 Rookie Jani Rita 10GP, 4G, 7A, 11pts, -2, 20 SOG
19/20 Rookie Nathan Barrett 9GP, 8G, 5A, 13pts, +4, 26 SOG
 
Week
Position Player Stats
7 Goal Garth Snow 4GP, 4W, 105 SV, 115 ShA, .913 SV%
13 Goal Garth Snow 6GP, 6W, 2 ShO, 153 SV, 161 ShA, .950 SV%
18 Forward Michal Sivek 5GP, 7G, 5A, 12pts, +6, 18 SOG, 4 PiM, 8 HT, 110 MP
 
Week
Position Player Stats
10 Goal Brian Finley 4GP, 3W, 1T, 100 SV, 111 ShA, .901 SV%
 
Week
Position Player Stats
4 Forward Jarome Iginla 5GP, 4G, 7A, 11pts, +8, 15 SOG, 2 PiM, 12 HT, 128 MP
4 Defence Peter Smrek 5GP, 3G, 7A, 10pts, +7, 15 SOG, 0 PiM, 19 HT, 119 MP
13 Goal Brian Finley 5GP, 4W, 1L, 127 SV, 139 SOG, .914 SV%
 
Week
Position Player Stats
2 Defense Peter Smrek 5GP, 1G, 7A, 8pts, +11, 12 SOG, 8 HT, 108 MP
5 Goal Brian Finley 5GP, 5W, 116 SV, 130 SOG, .892 SV%
11 Goal Brian Finley 4GP, 4W, 96 SV, 105 SOG, .914 SV%
13 Goal Brian Finley 4GP, 4W, 97 SV, 105 SOG, .924 SV%
16 Goal Brian Finley 5GP, 5W, 125 SV, 135 SOG, .926 SV%
 

Trades & Transactions

 
Team
Transaction
TBL Dan Hooper hired as Lightning GM
 
Team
Transaction
TBL Alex Tousignant resigns as Lightning GM
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Marc Cavosie NJD Bobby Holik
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Brad Moran NJD Mike Brown, Steve Passmore
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Matthew Stajan, $500,000 BOS TBL 9 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Brian Passmore DET Eric Beaudoin
 

Team

Transaction

TBL

Alex Tousignant hired as Lightning GM

 

Team

Transaction

TBL

Tim Taylor resigns as Lightning GM

 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Matthieu Chouinard

QUE

TBL 8 Rnd 1, TBL 8 Rnd 2

 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Bobby Holik, BUF 8 Rnd 1 BUF Jeff Tagge, Martin Sonnenberg, Pavel Frolov, Tim Connoly
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Michael Pinc CGY TBL 8 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Ed Hill, Martin Samuelsson, NYI 8 Rnd 1, NYI 8 Rnd 2 NYI Jozef Stumpel, Kristian Huselius, Tom Barrasso, $500,000 (Partial Salary)
 

Team

Transaction

TBL

Tim Taylor hired as Lightning GM

 

Team

Transaction

TBL

Phil Wedow resigns as Lightning GM

 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL $10,000,000 CHI TBL 8 Rnd 4, TBL 9 Rnd 3, TBL 9 Rnd 4
 

Team

Transaction

TBL

Phil Wedow hired as Lightning GM

 

Team

Transaction

TBL

Jordan Smith resigned as Lightning GM

 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Alexander Frolov, Robert Dome

PIT

Markus Naslund

 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jeff Taffe, Sergei Gusev

PIT

Oleg Saprykin, TBL 8 Rnd 3

 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Radoslav Suchy, Tom Barrasso, Vadim Khomitski OAK Ryan Bayda, JS Giguere
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Jordan Smith hired as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Al Vira resigns as Lightning GM
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL BUF Rnd 1 Dispersal Draft Pick BUF Mattias Norstrom
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Chris Hajt, Evgeny Konstantinov, Tim Connolly BUF Scott Heffernan, Teemu Laine, Vaclav Nederost, TOR 7 Rnd 4
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Andreas Karlsson, JS Giguere, TOR 7 Rnd 4 TOR Garth Snow, Sergei Kliazmine
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Al Vira hired as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Philipp Gittersberger resigns as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Philipp Gittersberger hired as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Jon Harruff hired as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Philipp Gittersberger resigns as Lightning GM
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Josef Marha VAN Rene Vydareny, DET 6 Rnd 4
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Markus Naslund, POR 7 Rnd 2 POR Alexander Krevsun, Mike Commodore, Radim Vrbata,
Sven Helfenstein, Tomas Vokoun, Yuri Butsayev
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Alexander Krevsun, Brian Finley, Michal Sivek, $2,000,000 BOS Evgeni Nabakov, Marco Sturm, Matt McRae, Trevor Linden,
TBL 7 Rnd 1, FLA 7 Rnd 4
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Brian Gaffaney, Martin Sonnenberg, Vaclav Nedorost DET Brad Defauw, Randy Robitaille, DET 6 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Yuri Butsayev CLE Manny Fernandez
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Evgeni Nabokov, QUE 6 Rnd 3 TOR Andy Hilbert, Pavel Datsyuk
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jarome Iginla, Sven Helfenstein FLA Alexei Kovalev, Jani Rita, TBL 10 Rnd 1
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL $24,000 OTT Benoit Brunet
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Garth Snow, DET 6 Rnd 2 HFD Roman Rozakov
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL FLA 7 Rnd 4, VAN 7 Rnd 4 FLA David Karpa, Terry Ryan
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Kyle Clark FLA Deryk Engelland, Patrick Cote
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Deryk Engelland, Ryan Bayda, Scott Heffernan PHX Andy Delmore, Kristian Kovac, Mike Knuble, Sami Salo
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Petr Smrek, BOS 6 Rnd 3 BOS Anton Volchenkov, Barrett Jackman, Vladimir Orszagh,
TBL 6 Rnd 1
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Mike Commodore COL ex-VAN 5 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Andy Hilbert, Marco Sturm FLA Mattias Weinhandl, Vaclav Nedorost
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Andy Delmore, MOS 5 Rnd 1 SJS SJS 5 Rnd 1, $500,000
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Barrett Jackman, Matt McRae, VAN 5 Rnd 3 SJS Jason Smith, Jeff Heerema, TBL 5 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Paul Mara, Future Considerations FLA Keith Carney, Marian Gaborik
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Sergei Kliazmine OTT Kevyn Adams
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL $425,000 NYI Denny Lambert
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL $525,000 NYI Valeri Zelepukin
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Brad Defaux, Stephen Heinze SJS Brian Rafalski, Jan Lasak
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Corey Hirsch OAK $500,000
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Nelson Emerson CHI $5,000
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Brian Sutherby, Jeff Halpern POR Michael Nylander, Yuri Dobryshkin
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jeff Heerema MIN Ladislav Benysek, Stephane Cherneski
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Roman Lyaschenko MOS Nathan Barrett
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Brian Rafalski MOS NJD 5 Rnd 1, PHX 5 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jason Smith STL Jaroslav Spacek
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jaroslav Spacek OAK Marian Cibak, SJS 5 Rnd 3, $500,000
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Vladimir Orszagh HFD TBL 6 Rnd 4
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Michael Nylander FLA End of Debt
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jozef Stumpel, Keith Carney, PHX 5 Rnd 3 PHX Alex Tanguay, Kris Johnsson
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL FLA 4 Rnd 3, PIT 4 Rnd 3 SJS Sebastien Caron, FLA 5 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Darren Puppa, $10,000 CHI Brian Bradley
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Teemu Laine OAK Colin White
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Sami Salo FLA Scott Thornton
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL PIT 4 Rnd 4 MIN Mike Stuart
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Michael Nylander, FLA 5 Rnd 3 FLA Peter Schaefer
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Sasha Lakovic ATL David Shaw
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Stefan Cherneski SJS Jay Pandolfo, TBL 6 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Daniel Markov, Sergei Dobryshkin PHX Matthieu Schneider, PIT 4 Rnd 4
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Mattias Weinhandl PHX Scott Walker
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Scott Walker CHI CBJ 4 Rnd 4, $500,000
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Peter Scheafer, CBJ 4 Rnd 4 MIN Oleg Saprykin
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Alexei Kovalev, Jay Pandolfo FLA Jason Kudroc, Michael Nylander
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Scott Thornton SJS Lonny Bohonos
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Oleg Saprykin BUF Garrett Bembridge, TBL 4 Rnd 1
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Michael Nylander MTL Marty McInnis, TBL 5 Rnd 4
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Mathieu Schneider MTL Cory Cross, CLE 4 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Valeri Zelepukin NYI $235,000
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL SJS 5 Rnd 1, SJS 5 Rnd 3 SJS Steve Gainey
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Steve Gainey PIT Curtis Brown, TBL 4 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Marty McInnis NJD Janne Laukannen, Ryan Glenn
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Alex Tanguay, Jason Kudroch NYI Brian Savage, Jarsolav Spacek, Sergei Berezin
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Colin White, TBL 4 Rnd 3 CLE Sebastien Bordeleau
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Marian Gaborik OAK Radek Bonk, Steve Konowalchuk, TBL 5 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jaroslav Spacek WSH Charlie Stephens
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Mattias Norstrom, Niklas Lidstrom NSH Didier Tremblay, Keith Primeau, Philippe Boucher,
TBL 3 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Chris Phillips, Radek Bonk OTT Don Sweeney, Markus Naslund
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Keith Primeau, Markus Naslund, Robert Petrovicky PIT Bobby Holik, Darcy Tucker, Marty McInnis
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Didier Tremblay, Philippe Boucher CBJ Robert Svehla, Vaclav Prospal, DAL 3 Rnd 2, TBL 4 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Bobby Holik, Kim Johnsson PIT Marian Hossa, Rod Brind'Amour
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Brian Savage, Marty McInnes, Rod Brind'Amour NSH Craig Conroy, Valeri Kamensky, Vyacheslav Kozlov
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Don Sweeney, Randy McKay CBJ Adam Graves, Philipe Boucher
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Cory Cross, Darren Turcotte, Vyacheslav Kozlov, $100,000 WPG Craig Rivet, Krys Barch, Pat Verbeek, TBL 3 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Marian Hossa OTT Joe Thornton
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Janne Laukkanen NJD Vlastimil Kroupa
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Philipp Gittersberger hired as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Paul Cluderay resigns as Lightning GM
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Joe Thornton, TBL 2 Rnd 1, DAL 3 Rnd 3 DAL Martin Straka
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Paul Cluderay hired as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Xavier Cuellar resigns as Lightning GM
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Peter Sarno, Philippe Boucher PIT Alexandre Daigle, Ed Jovanovski, DAL 2 Rnd 3
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Adam Graves, Martin Straka, Robert Svehla PIT Milan Kraft, Steve Yzerman, TBL 2 Rnd 4
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Ed Jovanovski, Sergei Berezin, Steve Konowalchuk HFD Christian Backman, Ruslan Salei, Stefan Cherneski
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Craig Conroy WSH Ethan Moreau
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Jay More, Tom Barrasso, Valeri Kamensky COL Patrick Roy, Viktor Wallin
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Eric Cherneski, Glenn Healy, Sebastien Bordeleau ANA Matthieu Chouinard, TBL 2 Rnd 2
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Xavier Cuellar hired as Lightning GM
 

Team

Transaction

TBL Eric Coss resigns as Lightning GM
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Alexei Gusarov, David Shaw, Vaclav Prospal, ANA 2 Rnd 3 ANA Chris Simon, Eric Cairns, James Black
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Kjell Samuelsson, EDM 2 Rnd 3 EDM Eric Houde, TBL 2 Rnd 2
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Craig Rivet, Pat Verbeek, Vlastimir Kroupa, $100,000 EDM Sergei Brylin, Vladimir Malahkov
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL DAL 2 Rnd 3, DAL 2 Rnd 4, DAL 3 Rnd 2, DAL 3 Rnd 4,
$250,000
DAL TBL 2 Rnd 1, Pick To Be Named Later
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Chris Simon, James Black, EDM 2 Rnd 2 EDM Doug Brown, Vlastimil Kroupa
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL Darrin Shannon NYI Jean-Yves Leroux, $1,000,000
 
Team Acquisition Team

Acquisition

TBL WSH 2 Rnd 1 WSH WSH 1 Rnd 4, WSH 1 Rnd 6, WSH 1 Rnd 8

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