Roster · 2025-26 · Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning, by the numbers

Team

Tampa Bay Lightning

Season2025-26

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 · 21

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R99Nikita Kucherov76 GP · 1547 min+2.53WAR

L98Brandon Hagel71 GP · 1404 min+2.19WAR

C96Jake Guentzel81 GP · 1640 min+1.94WAR

C87Anthony Cirelli71 GP · 1229 min+1.42WAR

C85Brayden Point63 GP · 1150 min+1.33WAR

R83Pontus Holmberg70 GP · 935 min+1.19WAR

C74Gage Goncalves74 GP · 969 min+0.94WAR

R66Corey Perry72 GP · 984 min+0.75WAR

C65Yanni Gourde82 GP · 1342 min+0.75WAR

R62Oliver Bjorkstrand80 GP · 1091 min+0.72WAR

C44Dominic James43 GP · 527 min+0.43WAR

L42Nick Paul51 GP · 698 min+0.40WAR

C39Zemgus Girgensons74 GP · 1093 min+0.35WAR

C4Curtis Douglas43 GP · 290 min+0.01WAR

C3Jack Finley44 GP · 427 min0.00WAR

R—Mitchell Chaffee11 GP · 105 min+0.02WAR

C—Conor Geekie14 GP · 139 min+0.01WAR

L—Jakob Pelletier5 GP · 47 min+0.00WAR

L—Dylan Duke1 GP · 9 min+0.00WAR

L—Boris Katchouk3 GP · 37 min0.00WAR

R—Scott Sabourin26 GP · 207 min-0.02WAR

Defense · 12

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D94Darren Raddysh73 GP · 1657 min+1.76WAR

D94J.J. Moser79 GP · 1704 min+1.75WAR

D88Charle-Edouard D'Astous70 GP · 1313 min+1.30WAR

D53Emil Lilleberg50 GP · 865 min+0.40WAR

D49Ryan McDonagh48 GP · 924 min+0.36WAR

D45Erik Cernak61 GP · 1075 min+0.30WAR

D39Declan Carlile42 GP · 621 min+0.24WAR

D37Max Crozier35 GP · 561 min+0.22WAR

D33Victor Hedman33 GP · 623 min+0.19WAR

D—Steven Santini12 GP · 124 min+0.01WAR

D—Maxim Groshev2 GP · 23 min+0.00WAR

D—Simon Lundmark1 GP · 17 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

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

G92Andrei Vasilevskiy58 GP · 3431 min+3.50WAR

G30Jonas Johansson25 GP · 1424 min+0.21WAR

G—Brandon Halverson2 GP · 57 min-0.11WAR

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