{"id":413106,"date":"2026-09-28T20:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413106\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:40:43","slug":"lightning-announce-2026-27-opening-night-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413106\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning announce 2026-27 opening night roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning announced today the club\u2019s season opening roster for the 2026-27 NHL season. Tampa Bay\u2019s roster is comprised of 15 forwards, eight defensemen and two goaltenders. Two of the Lightning\u2019s forwards (Yanni Gourde and Dominic James) will be unavailable on Opening Night due to injury.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In addition to unveiling the club\u2019s roster, vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced that forward Benjamin Rautiainen has been loaned to Tappara of the Finnish Liiga. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>To view Tampa Bay\u2019s season opening roster, please see below or <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabay.app.box.com\/s\/qzh2s97namaxzpwws64je9q0enhftd2z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning announced today the club\u2019s season opening roster for the 2026-27 NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-413106","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\/413106","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=413106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}