Tampa Bay Lightning at Philadelphia Flyers: game preview
Tampa BayLightning2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 50-26-6 · 106 pts · 5that
PhiladelphiaFlyers2026-27: 0-2-2 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 43-27-12 · 98 pts · 11thEight points apart last season
Tampa Bay finished last season 5th in the league on 106 points. Philadelphia finished 11th on 98, and the 2025-26 season series went TBL 3-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 137
Across 136 completed games, Tampa Bay lead the head-to-head 73-54-8.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 24 Nov 2025, Tampa Bay were 6th in the league and Philadelphia 19th. By 5 Oct it was 11th and 28th.
Tampa Bay out-attempted Philadelphia 276 to 219
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Philadelphia Flyers
Tampa Bay have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Tampa Bay, 4 for Philadelphia. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Tampa Bay, 10 for Philadelphia.
2025-26: 82 games for Tampa Bay, 86 for Philadelphia.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Tampa Bay
Small samplePhiladelphia
Small sampleNikita Kucherov has 13 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Nikita Kucherov vs Philadelphia · game by game
See all: Nikita Kucherov vs Philadelphia · game by game →Andrei Vasilevskiy has been the difference
Andrei Vasilevskiy faced 76 shots across 4 appearances against Philadelphia and conceded 3, a .961 save percentage against a season figure of .898. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 2 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 31 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Andrei Vasilevskiy
See all: Andrei Vasilevskiy →TBL · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 31 Jan
Dan Vladar
See all: Dan Vladar →PHI · 0-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 31 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Joseph Woll .929 (2 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.0 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Tampa Bay2.672.333.542.82
Philadelphia1.254.253.052.96Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
6 on the injury lists
Tampa Bay · injuries
Philadelphia · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed C Jansen Harkins on waivers.
Placed D Michael Callahan on waivers.
Placed D Michael Callahan, G Mads Sogaard Nielsenon, LD Maxim Groshev, LW Jakob Pelletier and C Nicholas Abruzzese on waivers.
Reinstated C Jett Luchanko Barkey from injured reserve.
Agreed to terms with LW Garrett Wilson on a 1-Year contract. Loaned G Alexei Kolosov to Lehigh Valley (AHL).
Loaned Fs Jacob Gaucher, Cole Knuble and Jett Luchanko and D Oliver Bonk to Lehigh Valley (AHL).
Tampa Bay · 2026 draft
See all: Tampa Bay · 2026 draft →Philadelphia · 2026 draft
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