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2006–07 Tampa Bay Lightning season

National Hockey League team season

Field	Value
League	NHL
Season	2006–07
year	2006
Team	Tampa Bay Lightning
Conference	Eastern
ConferenceRank	7th
Division	Southeast
DivisionRank	2nd
Record	44–33–5
HomeRecord	22–18–1
RoadRecord	22–15–4
GoalsFor	253
GoalsAgainst	261
GeneralManager	Jay Feaster
Coach	John Tortorella
Captain	Tim Taylor
AltCaptain	Vincent Lecavalier
Brad Richards
Arena	St. Pete Times Forum
Attendance	19,833
MinorLeague	Springfield Falcons
Johnstown Chiefs
GoalsLeader	Vincent Lecavalier (52)
AssistsLeader	Martin St. Louis (59)
PointsLeader	Vincent Lecavalier (108)
PlusMinusLeader	Nikita Alexeev (+10)
PIMLeader	Andre Roy (128)
WinsLeader	Johan Holmqvist (27)
GAALeader	Johan Holmqvist (2.85)

Brad Richards Johnstown Chiefs

The 2006–07 Tampa Bay Lightning season was the 15th National Hockey League season in Tampa, Florida. The Lightning hoped to rebound from their disappointing first round exit in 2005–06. After head coach John Tortorella ripped his goaltenders during the 2006 playoffs, the Lightning pinned their hopes on Marc Denis, acquired from the Columbus Blue Jackets during the off-season.

Two Lightning players represented the Eastern Conference at the 55th National Hockey League All-Star Game in Dallas: Martin St. Louis scored a goal in the game, while Vincent Lecavalier recorded an assist.

Off-season

Tim Taylor was named the eighth captain in franchise history on September 6, 2006.

Regular season

Season standings

Playoffs

Tampa Bay ended the 2006–07 regular season as the Eastern Conference's seventh seed.

Schedule and results

Regular season

|- | 1 || October 5 || Tampa Bay || 3–2 || Atlanta || SO || Denis || 17,269 || 1–0–0 || 2 || |- | 2 || October 7 || Boston || 3–2 || Tampa Bay || || Denis || 21,234 || 1–1–0 || 2 || |- | 3 || October 9 || Atlanta || 1–0 || Tampa Bay || || Denis || 19,817 || 1–2–0 || 2 || |- | 4 || October 13 || Tampa Bay || 2–3 || Florida || || Holmqvist || 15,208 || 1–3–0 || 2 || |- | 5 || October 14 || Florida || 1–4 || Tampa Bay || || Denis || 19,926 || 2–3–0 || 4 || |- | 6 || October 16 || Carolina || 5–1 || Tampa Bay || || Denis || 19,815 || 2–4–0 || 4 || |- | 7 || October 19 || Philadelphia || 1–4 || Tampa Bay || || Denis || 19,920 || 3–4–0 || 6 || |- | 8 || October 21 || Tampa Bay || 6–4 || Washington || || Denis || 13,327 || 4–4–0 || 8 || |- | 9 || October 26 || Carolina || 1–5 || Tampa Bay || || Denis || 18,826 || 5–4–0 || 10 || |- | 10 || October 28 || Tampa Bay || 4–6 || Carolina || || Denis || 18,639 || 5–5–0 || 10 || |- | 11 || October 29 || San Jose || 4–2 || Tampa Bay || || Denis || 19,904 || 5–6–0 || 10 ||

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Playoffs

|- | 1 || April 12 || Tampa Bay || 3–5 || New Jersey || || Holmqvist || 14,495 || 0–1 || |- | 2 || April 14 || Tampa Bay || 3–2 || New Jersey || || Holmqvist || 18,231 || 1–1 || |- | 3 || April 16 || New Jersey || 2–3 || Tampa Bay || || Holmqvist || 20,219 || 2–1 || |- | 4 || April 18 || New Jersey || 4–3 || Tampa Bay || OT || Holmqvist || 20,940 || 2–2 || |- | 5 || April 20 || Tampa Bay || 0–3 || New Jersey || || Holmqvist || 18,096 || 2–3 || |- | 6 || April 22 || New Jersey || 3–2 || Tampa Bay || || Holmqvist || 20,019 || 2–4 ||

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Player statistics

Scoring

Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Lightning only.*
- = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Lightning only.*

No.	Pos	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts
4	C	82	52	56	108	2	44	6	5	2	7	4	10
26	RW	82	43	59	102	7	28	6	3	5	8	6	8
19	C	82	25	45	70	−19	23	6	3	5	8	−4	6
22	D	82	20	43	63	−5	62	6	0	1	1	0	2
20	C	82	14	41	55	−24	36	6	1	4	5	2	4
71	D	81	15	22	37	−9	36	6	1	4	5	−1	4
9	C	82	13	23	36	−7	30	6	1	1	2	−4	2
17	LW	80	12	20	32	−3	52	4	0	0	0	−4	4
54	D	72	4	24	28	5	42	6	0	1	1	3	4
34	C	72	14	13	27	−11	55	6	0	0	0	−1	12
15	RW	63	10	11	21	10	12
21	D	82	0	15	15	−6	70	6	0	0	0	0	2
3	D	75	2	9	11	−11	53	1	0	0	0	0	0
74	C	77	5	4	9	−6	80	6	0	0	0	−1	10
24	C	53	3	6	9	−4	12	6	0	0	0	−1	0
16	RW	17	4	4	8	−11	10	6	0	1	1	−6	6
44	D	81	1	7	8	0	44	6	0	0	0	−2	5
29	LW	33	3	3	6	−6	8
27	C	71	1	5	6	−5	16	6	0	0	0	0	0
49	C	20	1	2	3	0	2
36	RW	51	1	2	3	−3	116	6	0	0	0	0	17
40	G	48	0	3	3		4	6	0	0	0		0
7	D	27	0	3	3	3	16
55	D	18	0	2	2	−8	36	6	0	0	0	−4	12
30	G	44	0	0	0		2
31	G	2	0	0	0		0
61	LW	7	0	0	0	−2	2
56	RW	4	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

No.	Player	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	W	L	OT	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI	GP	W	L	SA	GA	GAA	SV%
40	Johan Holmqvist	48	27	15	3	1134	121	2.85	.893	1	2548	6	2	4	168	18	2.92	.893	0	370
30	Marc Denis	44	17	18	2	1068	125	3.19	.883	1	2353	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
31	Karri Ramo	2	0	0	0	23	4	3.45	.826	0	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Awards and records

Awards

Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref	League
(annual)	League
(in-season)
Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy	Vincent Lecavalier
NHL Second All-Star Team	Dan Boyle (Defense)
Vincent Lecavalier (Center)
Martin St. Louis (Right wing)
[NHL All-Star Game](2007-national-hockey-league-all-star-game) selection	Vincent Lecavalier
Martin St. Louis
NHL First Star of the Week	Martin St. Louis (November 26)	title=NHL Three Stars of the Week	url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/awards/3starweekly.html	website=Hockey-Reference.com	access-date=August 4, 2024}}
NHL Second Star of the Week	Vincent Lecavalier (December 10)
NHL Third Star of the Month	Vincent Lecavalier (March)
NHL Second Star of the Week	Vincent Lecavalier (December 24)
Brad Richards (February 25)
NHL YoungStars Game selection	Paul Ranger

Records

Vincent Lecavalier reached 50 goals in a single season and becomes the highest, single-season goal scorer in Lightning history, surpassing Brian Bradley's previous record of 42 goals in a single season.

Milestones

Milestone	Player	Date	Ref	First game
Blair Jones	November 20, 2006
Karri Ramo	December 2, 2006

Transactions

The Lightning were involved in the following transactions from June 20, 2006, the day after the deciding game of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 6, 2007, the day of the deciding game of the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals.

Trades

Date	Details	Ref
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To [Columbus Blue Jackets](2006-07-columbus-blue-jackets-season)
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To [Dallas Stars](2006-07-dallas-stars-season)
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To [Philadelphia Flyers](2006-07-philadelphia-flyers-season)
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To [Los Angeles Kings](2006-07-los-angeles-kings-season)
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To [Atlanta Thrashers](2006-07-atlanta-thrashers-season)
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To [Anaheim Ducks](2006-07-anaheim-ducks-season)
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To [Chicago Blackhawks](2006-07-chicago-blackhawks-season)	title=Who went where?	url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/who-went-where/article20393671/	website=The Globe and Mail	access-date=September 11, 2024	language=en-CA	date=February 27, 2007}}
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To Los Angeles Kings
To Tampa Bay Lightning	To Anaheim Ducks

Players acquired

Date		Player		Former team		Term		Via		Ref
Andy Delmore
Andreas Karlsson
Filip Kuba
Doug Janik
Luke Richardson
Eric Healey
Andre Roy

Players lost

Date		Player		New team		Via		Ref
Gerard Dicaire
John Grahame
Pavel Kubina
Steve McLaren
Todd Rohloff
Dennis Packard
Jason Jaspers
Evgeny Artyukhin
Timo Helbling
Martin Cibak
Zdenek Blatny
Jean-Francois Soucy
Chris Dingman
Dmitri Afanasenkov
Sean Burke

Signings

Date		Player		Term		Contract type		Ref
Nikita Alexeev
Marc Denis
Norm Milley
Ruslan Fedotenko
Dmitri Afanasenkov
Mitch Fritz
Blair Jones
Ryan Craig
Cory Sarich
Vladimir Mihalik
Jason Ward
Andreas Karlsson
Johan Holmqvist
Riku Helenius
Chris Lawrence

Draft picks

Tampa's picks at the 2006 NHL entry draft in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Lightning picked 15th overall. Through a series of trades, Tampa had only four picks at this draft.

Round	#	Player	Nationality	College/junior/club team (league)
1	15	Riku Helenius (G)		Ilves (SM-liiga)
3	78	Kevin Quick (D)	United States	Salisbury (USHS-CN)
6	168	Dane Crowley (D)	Canada	Swift Current Broncos (WHL)
7	198	Denis Kazionov (LW)	Russia	HC MVD Tver (Russian Superleague)

Farm teams

[[Springfield Falcons]]

The Falcons are the Lightning's top affiliate in the American Hockey League for the third year.

[[Johnstown Chiefs]]

The Chiefs are Tampa Bay's ECHL affiliate for the 2006–07 season.

Notes

References

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