The Trend Line · 2026-27 · awaiting opening night

Tampa Bay Lightning

State of the teamTampa Bay finished with 106 points and took three of the league's major awards. Nikita Kucherov won the Hart with 130 scoring points, Andrei Vasilevskiy took the Vezina, and Jon Cooper earned the Jack Adams. Yet all that hardware ended in a first-round flameout, a seven-game loss to the rival Canadiens. The Lightning remain a model of consistency — a ninth straight playoff berth — but the contention window with this veteran core keeps closing a little earlier each spring. Tampa won the John Carlson sweepstakes out from under Carolina, signing the defenceman to a two-year, $17 million contract after Darren Raddysh was sign-and-traded to Toronto. The new season starts tracking here at puck drop.
110
2021-22
98
2022-23
98
2023-24
102
2024-25
106
2025-26
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2026-27
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Team Points Pace

Cumulative standings points through each game of the season, one colour per year. The red line is this season. Toggle to season-total bars for the year-over-year story.

one colour per season · hover for game detail
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Goals For & Against

Offence and defence, by season or game by game. Lower is better on goals against.

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Player Production

Each column is a core player; each dot is one season. Red is this season. Toggle the metric; hover any dot for the full line.

red = current season · one colour per past year
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Ice Time Tracker

Who's getting more ice time? Average minutes per game, season by season — the clearest read on who's gaining, and losing, the coach's trust. Flip to power-play time to see who's on the top unit. Add any skater on the roster; click a name in the legend to hide his line.

Minutes per game, from official NHL ice-time data.
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Goaltending

Every goalie season, dot size scaled by games played.

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Team Engine

Under-the-hood numbers, season by season: faceoffs, possession (SAT% is what the analytics crowd calls Corsi; Fenwick is the same idea minus blocked shots — above 50% means this team controls play), special teams, and shot rates.

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Zone Time

Offensive-zone time is the why behind shot-attempt share (SAT%) above — a team that lives in the offensive zone out-attempts opponents. The line tracks how that's moved season by season; the bar is this year's split. Based on NHL player-tracking data.

No player-tracking zone data published for this team.
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