A handful of Tampa Bay Lightning veterans enter the 2026-27 NHL season with milestone chases that are worth keeping on the radar. Some are nearly automatic if the players stay healthy.
Others will take a strong run over the full year. Either way, the numbers are there, and the list starts with the biggest one on the board.
Andrei Vasilevskiy is the headline act here, and for good reason. The Lightning goaltender sits at 370 career wins in 598 games, leaving him 30 short of 400.
According to the NHL public relations team, he could become the fastest goalie ever to reach that mark. That would put him ahead of Sergei Bobrovsky, who got to 400 wins in 707 games.
Vasilevskiy has already shown this kind of pace before, too. He was the quickest to 300 wins, getting there in 490 games and topping Jacques Plante’s pace of 521.
Nikita Kucherov keeps stacking milestones like they’re part of the routine now. He reached 400 goals last season and finished with 401, and he’s now in range of three more major benchmarks.
He needs 77 assists to get to 800, 76 points to hit 1,200 for his career, and five even-strength goals to reach 300. Since 2022-23, he’s posted at least 83 assists every season, so that first mark looks especially within reach.
Brayden Point is also sitting on two possible checkpoints. He has 685 career points, so he needs 15 more to reach 700.
That should be manageable if he can stay on the ice after injuries limited him last season. The same goes for his assist total.
Point is 400 assists, though that one is a little less certain. Even so, he averaged half an assist per game last season, and if he had played at least 80 games, that pace would have translated to another 40-assist year.
Brandon Hagel’s case is built on health as much as production. Injuries kept him from another career-best season in 2025-26, but he still set a new personal high with 36 goals.
He played 71 games and was on pace for roughly half a goal per game, which would have put him around 41 goals over a full healthy season. He needs 39 more goals to reach 200 for his career, and he’s also 39 points away from 400.
Over the last three seasons, he’s hovered around a point per game, so that scoring milestone should come well before season’s end.
Victor Hedman has a big assist chase of his own. The Lightning captain needs 61 more to reach 700.
That’s not a number he’s cleared every year, but he has done it twice: 65 assists in 2021-22 and 63 in 2023-24. After playing only 33 games last season, a healthy year would put him in position for a strong total, even if 61 is still a lofty target.
If Tampa Bay is in the mix again, this becomes the kind of checklist that keeps getting updated all season long.
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