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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
3Sam O'ReillyR · AHL202024 · #3212 GP · 2-2-4▼61
4Ethan CzataC · OHL192025 · #5616 GP · 9-10-19▲10
5Joona SaarelainenC · Liiga202024 · #14918 GP · 7-1-8▲16
6Ethan GauthierR · AHL212023 · #3711 GP · 1-3-4▼40
7Cooper SollerC · USHL182026 · #15416 GP · 9-3-12▼14
8Jayson ShaugabayR · NCAA212023 · #11512 GP · 1-12-13▲2
9Noah SteenL · AHL222024 · #19910 GP · 2-0-2▼90
10Dylan DukeL · AHL232021 · #12612 GP · 2-5-7▼29
11Marco MignosaR · NCAA212025 · #2156 GP · 1-1-2▼1
12Morgan AnderbergC · SHL182026 · #13412 GP · 0-1-1▼10
13Joe ConnorL · NCAA212024 · #1956 GP · 0-4-4▼5
14Milo RoelensC · ECHL23Undrafted6 GP · 1-2-3▲2
15Lucas MercuriC · AHL242020 · #15912 GP · 3-5-8▲45
16Klavs VeinbergsL · NCAA232022 · #22410 GP · 2-4-6▲10
17Roman LuttsevC · VHL202025 · #20617 GP · 4-1-5▼18
18Aiden FosterC · WHL192025 · #12710 GP · 7-4-11▲24
19Ethan HayC · NCAA212023 · #21110 GP · 3-0-3▼32
20Hagen BurrowsR · NCAA202024 · #1288 GP · 1-3-4▼7
21Gabriel SzturcC · AHL22Undrafted8 GP · 2-2-4▼8
22Connor KurthR · ECHL232022 · #1928 GP · 2-1-3▼9
23Cooper FlintonL · AHL232021 · #2116 GP · 0-0-0▼9
24Tristan AllardL · AHL24Undrafted9 GP · 0-2-2▼2
25Jack HarveyL · NCAA232023 · #19310 GP · 1-6-7▼1

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