{"id":412114,"date":"2026-09-27T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412114\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:12:17","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-prospects-to-know-on-the-syracuse-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412114\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Prospects To Know On The Syracuse Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning have several young players pushing toward the NHL, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flohockey.tv\/teams\/7970641-syracuse-crunch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse Crunch<\/a> will once again be a key stop in the organization&#8217;s development pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse opens its 2026-27 home schedule Oct. 10 against the Belleville Senators at Upstate Medical University Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three Lightning prospects to watch with Syracuse in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Gauthier, F<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Gauthier enters his second full professional season looking to build on a strong finish to 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 second-round pick recorded 12 goals and 15 assists for 27 points in 56 games with Syracuse last season.<\/p>\n<p>Gauthier produced 18 of those points over his final 25 games, and the Lightning hope the 21-year-old can continue that progression in a larger role with the Crunch this season.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Duke, F<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Duke established himself as one of the AHL&#8217;s top goal scorers last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old scored 32 goals and finished with 59 points while playing all 72 games for Syracuse. His 32 goals tied for third in the AHL.<\/p>\n<p>Duke is competing for an NHL roster spot during Lightning training camp, but he has said he&#8217;ll return to Syracuse focused on earning another call-up if he doesn&#8217;t make Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Sam O&#8217;Reilly, F<\/p>\n<p>Sam O&#8217;Reilly enters his first professional season as Tampa Bay&#8217;s top-ranked prospect according to NHL.com.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 first-round pick split last season between London and Kitchener in the OHL, combining for 71 points in 56 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly then produced 28 points in 18 playoff games and was named MVP of the Memorial Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is competing for a Lightning roster spot this fall. If Tampa Bay decides he needs additional development time, Syracuse could give fans an opportunity to watch one of the organization&#8217;s premier young players.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the AHL, ECHL, QMJHL, OHL, USHL And More On FloHockey<\/p>\n<p>FloHockey is the streaming home to some of the best hockey leagues in North America, including the ECHL and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flohockey.tv\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the broadcast schedule to watch more hockey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join The Conversation On Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning have several young players pushing toward the NHL, and the Syracuse Crunch will once&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-412114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412114","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=412114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}