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Tampa Bay Lightning

East Atlantic · 2026–27 season

The story so far

Lightning fans opened demanding Jeff Halpern's firing over a broken power play, and a winning October only partly quieted them. A blown lead in Utah and a Nashville shootout loss turned anger toward coaching and Kucherov's contract, leaving fans irritated but okay at 8-3-2.

From Reddit fan threads · through Oct 26–Nov 1 · 8-3-2

Season misery
50Meh
Worst week
66Oct 19–25
Best week
34Oct 5–11
Sep 28–Oct 4: misery 60 (Uneasy) · 1-1Oct 5–11: misery 34 (Content) · 3-0Oct 12–18: misery 51 (Meh) · 2-1Oct 19–25: misery 66 (Miserable) · 1-2Oct 26–Nov 1: misery 52 (Meh) · 1-1Nov 2–8: misery 38 (Content) · 2-09/2810/510/1210/1910/2611/2
Weekly misery, Monday to Sunday. Above the line is miserable; below is happy.

Storylines

what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long
  • An 0/7 opener and an 0-for-12 start kept fans calling for assistant Jeff Halpern's firing, even through wins, while they pushed for Hedman back on the PP alongside Carlson.

    “James to the top 6, Lilleberg to the press box, Halpern to China. We move”

    ▲ 80Oct 12–18

Emerging
Came and went

angry / anxioushappy / hopefulsplitbigger dot = louder

  1. 38Nov 2–8● so far2-0›
  2. 52Oct 26–Nov 11-1›
  3. 66Oct 19–251-2›
  4. 51Oct 12–182-1›
  5. 34Oct 5–113-0›
  6. 60Sep 28–Oct 41-1›