Roster · 2026-27 · Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning, by the numbers

Team

Tampa Bay Lightning

Season2026-27

Each player is rated out of 100 against NHL players at his position. The bar underneath is his wins above replacement, on a league scale with replacement level marked.

Forwards · 14

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R99Nikita Kucherov11 GP · 233 min+0.40WAR

L98Brandon Hagel11 GP · 237 min+0.33WAR

C95Jake Guentzel11 GP · 222 min+0.28WAR

C92Brayden Point11 GP · 210 min+0.25WAR

C84Anthony Cirelli11 GP · 190 min+0.20WAR

C81Gage Goncalves10 GP · 162 min+0.18WAR

R64Pontus Holmberg11 GP · 157 min+0.12WAR

C52Conor Geekie11 GP · 131 min+0.09WAR

R46Ilya Mikheyev11 GP · 161 min+0.08WAR

C37Zemgus Girgensons11 GP · 149 min+0.06WAR

L8Jeffrey Viel8 GP · 76 min+0.01WAR

C—Dominic James3 GP · 38 min+0.01WAR

R—Scott Sabourin2 GP · 19 min-0.00WAR

C—Yanni GourdeYet to play—WAR

Defense · 8

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D92J.J. Moser11 GP · 197 min+0.27WAR

D88John Carlson11 GP · 217 min+0.23WAR

D59Ryan McDonagh11 GP · 177 min+0.09WAR

D58Erik Cernak11 GP · 209 min+0.09WAR

D45Victor Hedman10 GP · 136 min+0.05WAR

D40Max Crozier6 GP · 101 min+0.04WAR

D35Charle-Edouard D'Astous10 GP · 158 min+0.03WAR

D17Emil Lilleberg5 GP · 67 min+0.01WAR

Goaltenders · 2

Goalie WAR reaches higher than a skater's, so the bar uses its own league scale.

G55Dennis Hildeby3 GP · 181 min+0.25WAR

G36Andrei Vasilevskiy8 GP · 465 min+0.06WAR

A rating needs a minimum workload. Players below it show an em dash rather than a rank built on too few minutes, and are listed last by WAR. How this is calculated