Lightning tie the NHL record with 62 regular-season wins
Tampa Bay finished 2018–19 with 62 wins, matching the 1995–96 Detroit Red Wings for the most in a single NHL season.
62
Wins in 2018–19 (NHL single-season record)
Tampa Bay Lightning Attendance Tracker
Keep a permanent record of Tampa Bay Lightning games you attended at Benchmark International Arena—renamed from Amalie Arena in August 2025. Ticket Timeline is an NHL attendance tracker for Lightning fans who want TBL nights—and the hockey context around them—in one place.
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Game decided in a shootout
Tied through overtime, the game came down to one shooter at a time.
~7.9% of games
Are decided by shootout
First game for the Tampa Bay Lightning
The Tampa Bay Lightning played their first NHL game on this date — 1992 expansion — marking a new chapter in league history.
1st
FIRST GAME IN FRANCHISE HISTORY
Example: a top night from a season you attended
When enough games are in your archive, Ticket Timeline can rank nights you attended — for example a high-attendance Lightning game. This card is an illustration, not a logged result.
#7
Example rank, not an observed game
Player scores a hat trick
Three goals, one player, one night—a feat only a handful of players record each season.
~7.6% of games
Feature a hat trick
Tampa Bay Lightning Snapshot
- League
- NHL (National Hockey League)
- Home venue
- Benchmark International Arena
- Location
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Abbreviation
- TBL
Team Colors
Primary: #002E5C
Secondary: #FFFFFF
Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
Buildings the Lightning have called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names a former arena or an earlier naming-rights label.
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1996—a data-coverage year, not a franchise-founding claim; the Lightning played their first three seasons (1992–1996) at other Tampa Bay-area venues before the current building opened.
If your ticket says Ice Palace, St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa Bay Times Forum, or Amalie Arena, Ticket Timeline recognizes those as earlier names for the same building the Lightning still call home.
The Tampa Bay Lightning, an NHL expansion franchise founded in 1992, have played every home game in the same downtown Tampa building since it opened in 1996—but that building has worn five different names along the way. It opened as the Ice Palace, was renamed St. Pete Times Forum in 2002, then Tampa Bay Times Forum in 2004, then Amalie Arena in 2014. On August 13, 2025, Vinik Sports Group signed a new naming-rights partnership with Tampa-based Benchmark International, ending Amalie's eleven-year run and renaming the building Benchmark International Arena, effective immediately.
Tampa Bay Lightning play home games at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, FL, USA. Dates for those nights are anchored in Eastern time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names an earlier name of the same building.
Rebuild your Lightning history
Use that timeline when dating a night: Ice Palace runs through 2002, St. Pete Times Forum through 2004, Tampa Bay Times Forum through 2014, Amalie Arena through August 2025, and Benchmark International Arena from August 2025 on—all the same downtown Tampa building under five naming-rights labels. Rebuilding Lightning attendance is usually a scavenger hunt: paper tickets and PDF confirmations, camera-roll scoreboard dates, calendar invites, season-ticket statements, and memory anchors (companions, rivals, life events, arena names on stubs). Work season by season; a partial list of attended games is enough to start matching opponents and arenas. When confirmations live in Gmail, import games you've attended walks through a read-only preview before anything is committed. For a shoebox of stubs, see what to do with old ticket stubs.
- Old paper tickets and digital PDFs
- Email receipts and order confirmations
- Camera-roll photos with visible dates or scoreboards
- Calendar entries and season-ticket records
- Memory anchors: opponents, companions, venues, life events
- Ice Palace nights (1996–2002)—the building's original name
- St. Pete Times Forum and Tampa Bay Times Forum nights (2002–2014)—earlier sponsor names for the same building
- Amalie Arena nights (2014–2025)—the building's name for over a decade, including both 2020 and 2021 Stanley Cup championship runs
- Benchmark International Arena nights (2025–present)—current home in Ticket Timeline's data
What your Lightning archive unlocks
Once you've logged Lightning games you attended, Ticket Timeline surfaces the attendance story—not a live scoreboard. Visited insights can include nights under earlier printed names—Ice Palace, St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa Bay Times Forum, Amalie Arena—and today's Benchmark International Arena, all the same building since 1996.
Attended
- Total games attended
- Your record when you attended
- Home and road games
Visited
- Arenas visited
- Nights under earlier printed names (Ice Palace through Amalie Arena)
- Nights at current home Benchmark International Arena (2025–present)
Witnessed
- Players and teams seen
- Historic games witnessed
- Milestone moments witnessed
- Rare moments witnessed
- Achievements earned
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At Benchmark International Arena
Lightning home games today are at Benchmark International Arena in downtown Tampa. Former printed names and earlier naming-rights labels live in the venue timeline above—use those when an old ticket does not say Benchmark International Arena.
How Ticket Timeline connects your Lightning games
Add Lightning games from memory, import a spreadsheet, or scan ticket stubs. Ticket Timeline links each attended game to NHL context—teams, arenas, players, and notable moments—so nights at Benchmark International Arena and its earlier names become a browsable Tampa Bay Lightning archive. Primary focus on this page: home venue nights.
For fans who live at Lightning home arena nights
Tampa Bay Lightning home games at Benchmark International Arena deserve a clean record. Ticket Timeline keeps those attended nights organized with matchup and arena context, and stays useful when you also add road games later.
A memory worth recovering
If your stub says Ice Palace, St. Pete Times Forum, or Tampa Bay Times Forum, that's the same downtown Tampa building the Lightning now call Benchmark International Arena—just under an earlier printed name. If it says Amalie Arena, that's the name the building carried for the franchise's back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021, right up until the August 2025 rename. Checking which name is on your ticket helps place a night in the right era, even when the seats never changed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What can I track for Tampa Bay Lightning games I've attended?
Ticket Timeline helps you track attended Tampa Bay Lightning games with emphasis on nights at Benchmark International Arena: matchups, arena context, players, milestones, and notable moments from those seats.
How do I add Lightning games to my timeline?
Search for a Lightning matchup and date, import a spreadsheet, scan a ticket stub, or add games manually—including older nights at Benchmark International Arena. Ticket Timeline connects each attended game to NHL context.
Can I track how many arenas I've visited for NHL?
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you see arena progress across the Lightning and NHL games you've attended, so you can revisit which arenas you've been to and keep building that record over seasons.
Can I import years of Lightning history from a spreadsheet or Gmail?
Yes. You can import a spreadsheet of attended Lightning games, and Ticket Timeline also supports finding games from Gmail ticket confirmations with a read-only, preview-before-commit flow. That makes it easier to reconstruct years of history without retyping every date.
Does Ticket Timeline sell tickets?
No. Ticket Timeline does not sell tickets. It is an app for tracking NHL games you've already attended and exploring the story behind your fandom.
Can I keep a separate record of Lightning games at Benchmark International Arena?
Yes. Ticket Timeline lets you track attended Tampa Bay Lightning games with venue context, so nights at Benchmark International Arena stay easy to revisit as part of your wider Tampa attendance history.
Can I track Tampa Bay Lightning games at Benchmark International Arena?
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you track Tampa Bay Lightning games you attended at Benchmark International Arena, then connect those nights to teams, players, arenas, and hockey memories.
Can I use Ticket Timeline for Lightning playoff games?
Yes. You can add regular-season and playoff Lightning games you attended so your hockey timeline reflects the nights that mattered most to you.
Start Building Your Lightning Timeline
Download Ticket Timeline to preserve Tampa Bay Lightning games you've attended and keep your hockey home-venue history in one archive.
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