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Prospects · Tampa Bay Lightning · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Tampa Bay Lightning prospects

Every player in the Tampa Bay Lightning's system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

27thTampa Bay Lightning: pipeline rank among 32 organizations1 in the league top 100 · 38 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Benjamin RautiainenC · Liiga212025 · #10811 GP · 2-3-5▼5
2Oleg KulebiakinR · QMJHL182026 · #5215 GP · 3-10-13▲3
3Hugo AlnefeltG · Liiga252019 · #7113 GP · .905▲32
4Tomas KralovicD · Slovakia212026 · #908 GP · 0-1-1 AHL▲8
5Sam O'ReillyR · AHL202024 · #3212 GP · 2-2-4▼61
6Ethan CzataC · OHL192025 · #5616 GP · 9-10-19▲10
7Joona SaarelainenC · Liiga202024 · #14918 GP · 7-1-8▲16
8Stepan ShuryginG · OHL192026 · #1866 GP · .867▲9
9Ethan GauthierR · AHL212023 · #3711 GP · 1-3-4▼40
10Everett BaldwinD · NCAA192025 · #1516 GP · 0-1-1▲1
11Caleb HeilG · NCAA202025 · #1933 GP · .934▲1
12Daniil PylenkovD · KHL252021 · #19626 GP · 4-13-17▼6
13Cooper SollerC · USHL182026 · #15416 GP · 9-3-12▼14
14Jayson ShaugabayR · NCAA212023 · #11512 GP · 1-12-13▲2
15Noah SteenL · AHL222024 · #19910 GP · 2-0-2▼90
16Dylan DukeL · AHL232021 · #12612 GP · 2-5-7▼29
17Marco MignosaR · NCAA212025 · #2156 GP · 1-1-2▼1
18Max VilenD · QMJHL202026 · #21814 GP · 0-1-1▼33
19Morgan AnderbergC · SHL182026 · #13412 GP · 0-1-1▼10
20Joe ConnorL · NCAA212024 · #1956 GP · 0-4-4▼5
21Milo RoelensC · ECHL23Undrafted6 GP · 1-2-3▲2
22Harrison MeneghinG · ECHL222024 · #20614 GP · .889▲3
23Lucas MercuriC · AHL242020 · #15912 GP · 3-5-8▲45
24Klavs VeinbergsL · NCAA232022 · #22410 GP · 2-4-6▲10
25Grant SpadaD · OHL192025 · #21216 GP · 2-5-7▲12
26Roman LuttsevC · VHL202025 · #20617 GP · 4-1-5▼18
27Aiden FosterC · WHL192025 · #12710 GP · 7-4-11▲24
28Ethan HayC · NCAA212023 · #21110 GP · 3-0-3▼32
29Dyllan GillD · ECHL222022 · #2235 GP · 1-4-5 AHL▼8
30Maxim GroshevD · AHL242020 · #8512 GP · 2-4-6▲37
31Hagen BurrowsR · NCAA202024 · #1288 GP · 1-3-4▼7
32Gabriel SzturcC · AHL22Undrafted8 GP · 2-2-4▼8
33Connor KurthR · ECHL232022 · #1928 GP · 2-1-3▼9
34Cooper FlintonL · AHL232021 · #2116 GP · 0-0-0▼9
35Tristan AllardL · AHL24Undrafted9 GP · 0-2-2▼2
36Warren ClarkD · NCAA222023 · #1792 GP · 0-0-0–
37Jack HarveyL · NCAA232023 · #19310 GP · 1-6-7▼1
38Simon LundmarkD · AHL252019 · #512 GP · 0-1-1▼3

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work