TAMPA BAY \u2013 The Tampa Bay Lightning have recalled forward Dominic James from the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, Vice President and General Manager Julien BriseBois announced today.<\/p>\n
James, 23, has skated in four games with Syracuse this season, recording three goals and five points with one game-winning tally and one power-play goal. The 6-foot, 190-pound forward ranks third among all AHL rookies for goals, fourth for points and tied for first for both power-play and game-winning goals.<\/p>\n
A native of Plymouth, Michigan, James made his professional debut with the Crunch on October 11 at Hershey, scoring one goal and adding one assist in a 5-2 win. He has found the scoresheet in each of his first four games with Syracuse to lead the team for goals and rank tied for the team lead for points and game-winners.<\/p>\n
Serving as team captain for the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs last season, James skated in 35 games and posted a career-high 14 goals and 30 points with five power-play goals and three game-winners. He played 111 career games with the Bulldogs, registering 30 goals and 77 points with a plus-10 rating and 52 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
James was originally drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the sixth round, 173rd overall, of the 2022 NHL Draft. He signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Tampa Bay on September 20, 2025, and is looking to make his NHL debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY \u2013 The Tampa Bay Lightning have recalled forward Dominic James from the Syracuse Crunch of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-233628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}