{"id":103547,"date":"2026-01-02T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:16:08","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-players-named-to-2026-winter-olympics-rosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103547\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning players named to 2026 Winter Olympics rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Nine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/nhl\/lightning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> players are set to represent six different nations at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina, Italy.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The tournament will run from Feb. 11 to 22. It will mark the first time since 2014 that NHL players have competed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/legendary-buccaneers-radio-broadcaster-gene-deckerhoff-retire-2025-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Legendary Buccaneers radio broadcaster Gene Deckerhoff to retire after 2025 season<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Nations have released their final rosters this week. Here\u2019s who made the cut from the Lightning:<\/p>\n<p> Anthony Cirelli, F (Canada)Brandon Hagel, F (Canada)Brayden Point, F (Canada)Oliver Bjorkstrand, F (Denmark)Zemgus Girgensons, F (Lativia)Erik Cernak, D (Slovakia)Pontus Holmberg, F (Sweden)Victor Hedman, D (Sweden)Jake Guentzel, F (United States) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">All nine players will be making their Olympic debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/lightning-pic-1-1.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">SUNRISE, FL &#8211; DECEMBER 27: Tampa Bay Lightning center Jake Guentzel (59) celebrates his goal during the first period during a NHL game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers on December 27, 2025 at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, FL. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Jake Guentzel will make his second international appearance for Team USA, after he was tied for the team lead with three goals at the 4 Nations Face-Off in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Some nations have yet to announce their official Olympic rosters. Count on FOX 13 to provide updates if any more Lightning players make a roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/nhl\/lightning\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/olympics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/nhl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Nine Tampa Bay Lightning players are set to represent six different nations at the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9662,5691,53840,110,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-103547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-lightning","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-olympics","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}