Legendary Buccaneers radio broadcaster Gene Deckerhoff to retire after 2025 season<\/a><\/p>\nNations have released their final rosters this week. Here\u2019s who made the cut from the Lightning:<\/p>\n
Anthony Cirelli, F (Canada)<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel, F (Canada)<\/p>\n
Brayden Point, F (Canada)<\/p>\n
Oliver Bjorkstrand, F (Denmark)<\/p>\n
Zemgus Girgensons, F (Lativia)<\/p>\n
Erik Cernak, D (Slovakia)<\/p>\n
Pontus Holmberg, F (Sweden)<\/p>\n
Victor Hedman, D (Sweden)<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel, F (United States)<\/p>\n
All nine players will be making their Olympic debut.<\/p>\n
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SUNRISE, FL – 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.(Photo by Chris Arjoon\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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
The Source<\/p>\n
Information for this story was provided by the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Nine Tampa Bay Lightning players are set to represent six different nations at the 2026 Olympic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[15231,397,97,1332,2312,57,5,1331,189,4,3264,1288,31826,3727,540,92,5168,5167,1498,2313],"class_list":["post-387752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-2026-olympic-winter-games","tag-anthony-cirelli","tag-brandon-hagel","tag-brayden-point","tag-erik-cernak","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey","tag-jake-guentzel","tag-lightning","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-players","tag-oliver-bjorkstrand","tag-olympic-debut","tag-pontus-holmberg","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning","tag-victor-hedman","tag-zemgus-girgensons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115828980758101871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}