1994–95 Tampa Bay Lightning season

1994–95 Tampa Bay Lightning
Division	6th Atlantic
Conference	12th Eastern
1994–95 record	17-28-3
Home record	10-14-0
Road record	7-14-3
Goals for	120
Goals against	144
Team information
General Manager	Phil Esposito
Coach	Terry Crisp
Captain	Vacant
Team leaders
Goals	Brian Bradley, Petr Klima (13)
Assists	Brian Bradley (27)
Points	Brian Bradley (40)
Penalties in minutes	Enrico Ciccone (225)
Wins	Daren Puppa (14)
Goals against average	Daren Puppa (2.68)
<1993–94 1995–96>

The 1994-95 Tampa Bay Lightning season was the third season in franchise history. The team traded away defenseman Shawn Chambers to the New Jersey Devils and forward Denis Savard to the Chicago Blackhawks; both players went on to have memorable playoff performances in 1995. Brian Bradley and Peter Klima both led the team in goals with 13, while Rob Zamuner led the team with 3 shorthanded goals. By April 21, the Lightning had a 17-22-3 record with only 118 goals against in 42 games. Although they had only scored 109 goals, Darren Puppa's solid goaltending kept the team ahead of the New York Islanders in the Atlantic Division standings. However, the Lightning finished the season with 6 losses in a row, getting outscored 26-11 to finish 17-28-3 for 37 points. An Islanders' loss to Philadelphia on May 2 ensured that the Lightning would not finish last place in the division.

Offseason

NHL Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	College/junior/club team
1	8	Jason Wiemer (Centre)	Canada	Portland Winter Hawks (WHL)
2	34	Colin Cloutier (Centre)	Canada	Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL)

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Regular season

Final standings

Atlantic Division

No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	2	Philadelphia Flyers	48	28	16	4	150	132	60
2	5	New Jersey Devils	48	22	18	8	136	121	52
3	6	Washington Capitals	48	22	18	8	136	120	52
4	8	New York Rangers	48	22	23	3	139	134	47
5	9	Florida Panthers	48	20	22	6	115	127	46
6	12	Tampa Bay Lightning	48	17	28	3	120	144	37
7	13	New York Islanders	48	15	28	5	126	158	35

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Note: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
       Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game log

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
3	W	January 25, 1995	3–2	Florida Panthers (1994–95)	1–2–0
7	T	February 2, 1995	3–3 OT	@ New York Rangers (1994–95)	3–3–1
11	W	February 10, 1995	4–3	Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	5–5–1
12	L	February 11, 1995	2–3	New York Rangers (1994–95)	5–6–1
13	L	February 14, 1995	2–5	Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	5–7–1
14	L	February 17, 1995	1–2	Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	5–8–1
15	W	February 18, 1995	3–1	Boston Bruins (1994–95)	6–8–1
16	L	February 20, 1995	1–3	New York Rangers (1994–95)	6–9–1
17	W	February 23, 1995	4–1	@ New York Islanders (1994–95)	7–9–1
18	W	February 24, 1995	4–2	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1994–95)	8–9–1
19	T	February 26, 1995	1–1 OT	@ Washington Capitals (1994–95)	8–9–2
20	L	March 1, 1995	2–8	@ Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	8–10–2
21	W	March 2, 1995	3–2 OT	@ Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	9–10–2
22	L	March 4, 1995	2–3 OT	@ Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	9–11–2
23	L	March 7, 1995	3–4	Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	9–12–2
24	L	March 10, 1995	2–3	New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	9–13–2
25	L	March 12, 1995	1–3	@ Washington Capitals (1994–95)	9–14–2
26	L	March 13, 1995	0–3	Washington Capitals (1994–95)	9–15–2
27	W	March 18, 1995	2–1	@ New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	10–15–2
28	W	March 19, 1995	6–1	@ Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	11–15–2
29	L	March 24, 1995	3–4 OT	Boston Bruins (1994–95)	11–16–2
30	W	March 27, 1995	3–2 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	12–16–2
31	L	March 29, 1995	2–4	Washington Capitals (1994–95)	12–17–2
32	W	March 31, 1995	2–0	Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	13–17–2
33	L	April 2, 1995	1–4	Florida Panthers (1994–95)	13–18–2
34	T	April 4, 1995	1–1 OT	@ New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	13–18–3
35	L	April 6, 1995	4–5	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	13–19–3
36	L	April 8, 1995	1–5	@ Boston Bruins (1994–95)	13–20–3
37	W	April 9, 1995	3–0	@ Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	14–20–3
38	W	April 11, 1995	5–2	New York Islanders (1994–95)	15–20–3
39	L	April 14, 1995	2–3	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	15–21–3
40	L	April 16, 1995	1–4	@ Florida Panthers (1994–95)	15–22–3
41	W	April 18, 1995	3–2	New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	16–22–3
42	W	April 20, 1995	5–2	Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	17–22–3
43	L	April 22, 1995	1–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	17–23–3
44	L	April 24, 1995	1–3	Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	17–24–3
45	L	April 26, 1995	4–6	@ New York Rangers (1994–95)	17–25–3
46	L	April 27, 1995	1–6	@ Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	17–26–3
47	L	April 29, 1995	1–4	@ Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	17–27–3
48	L	May 3, 1995	3–4	Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	17–28–3

Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
Bradley, BrianBrian Bradley	C	46	13	27	40	42	-6	3	0	2
Gratton, ChrisChris Gratton	C	46	7	20	27	89	-2	2	0	0
Klima, PetrPetr Klima	W	47	13	13	26	26	-13	4	0	3
Tucker, JohnJohn Tucker	C	46	12	13	25	14	-10	2	0	1
Hamrlik, RomanRoman Hamrlik	D	48	12	11	23	86	-18	7	1	2
Ysebaert, PaulPaul Ysebaert	C	29	8	11	19	12	-1	0	0	0
Savard, DenisDenis Savard	C	31	6	11	17	10	-6	1	0	1
Selivanov, AlexAlex Selivanov	RW	43	10	6	16	14	-2	4	0	3
Zamuner, RobRob Zamuner	LW	43	9	6	15	24	-3	0	3	1
Bureau, MarcMarc Bureau	C	48	2	12	14	30	-8	0	1	0
Chambers, ShawnShawn Chambers	D	24	2	12	14	6	0	1	0	0
Andersson, MikaelMikael Andersson	LW	36	4	7	11	4	-3	0	0	0
Semak, AlexanderAlexander Semak	C	22	5	5	10	12	-3	0	0	1
Cole, DantonDanton Cole	C/RW	26	3	3	6	6	-1	1	0	0
Bergevin, MarcMarc Bergevin	D	44	2	4	6	51	-6	0	1	0
Ciccone, EnricoEnrico Ciccone	D	41	2	4	6	225	3	0	0	0
Cross, CoryCory Cross	D	43	1	5	6	41	-6	0	0	1
Charron, EricEric Charron	D	45	1	4	5	26	1	0	0	0
Wiemer, JasonJason Wiemer	C	36	1	4	5	44	-2	0	0	0
Halkidis, BobBob Halkidis	D	27	1	3	4	40	-12	0	0	0
Plavsic, AdrienAdrien Plavsic	D	15	2	1	3	4	5	0	0	0
Myhres, BranttBrantt Myhres	RW	15	2	0	2	81	-2	0	0	1
Poeschek, RudyRudy Poeschek	RW/D	25	1	1	2	92	0	0	0	0
Hankinson, BenBen Hankinson	RW	18	0	2	2	6	1	0	0	0
Cummins, JimJim Cummins	RW	10	1	0	1	41	-3	0	0	1
Gretzky, BrentBrent Gretzky	C	3	0	1	1	0	-2	0	0	0
Puppa, DarenDaren Puppa	G	36	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
Bergeron, Jean-ClaudeJean-Claude Bergeron	G	17	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Gallant, GerardGerard Gallant	LW	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LiPuma, ChrisChris LiPuma	D	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Sutter, RichRich Sutter	RW	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV	SV%
Puppa, DarenDaren Puppa	2013	36	14	19	2	90	2.68	1	946	856	.905
Bergeron, Jean-ClaudeJean-Claude Bergeron	883	17	3	9	1	49	3.33	1	374	325	.869
Team:	2896	48	17	28	3	139	2.88	2	1320	1181	.895

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Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

References

• Lightning on Hockey Database

1. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1994e.html
2. Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al., eds. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
3. "1994-95 Tampa Bay Lightning Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-15.