Dave Andreychuk and Brad Richards will be inducted into the Tampa Bay Lightning's Hall of Fame as part of the 2024 class, the Lightning announced Friday morning.
The two forwards will be inducted during Lightning Alumni Weekend, scheduled for March 8-9, 2024.
Andreychuk and Richards will join forwards Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier and founder/former GM Phil Esposito as members of the recently created Hall of Fame.
Andreychuk signed with the Lightning in the 2001 offseason and spent four seasons with them. He was given the captaincy during the 2002-03 season, which he carried for three seasons. Andreychuk was a three-time 20-goal scorer, scoring 68 goals and 61 assists for 129 points in 278 regular-season games.
Before captaining the Lightning to the 2004 Stanley Cup, Andreychuk had gone 22 years and 1597 regular-season games without a Stanley Cup (2nd all-time). Andreychuk played in 34 playoff games across two appearances, scoring 13 points in the 2004 run to the Stanley Cup.
The Lightning drafted Richards in the 3rd round of the 1998 NHL Draft, the same draft as junior teammate Vincent Lecavalier. After two more years in junior hockey, Richards joined the Lightning for the 2000-01 season. He would finish second in Calder voting after a 21-goal, 62-point campaign. Over seven years in Tampa, Richards put up 150 goals and 339 assists for 489 points in 552 regular-season games (all rank within the Lightning top 10). Richards won the Lady Byng trophy for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct in 2003-04, the first in Lightning history, and finished runner-up in 2005-06.
Richards appeared in four postseasons for the Lightning, putting up 18 goals and 29 assists for 47 points in 45 playoff games. These stats included the 2003-04 run to the Stanley Cup, where Richards had 12 goals and a playoff-leading 26 points in 23 games to take home the first Conn Smythe Trophy in Lightning history.
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