Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the Tampa Bay Lightning have selected Brian Bradley and Rick Peckham to their franchise Hall of Fame.

Bradley and Peckham join Martin St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier, Phil Esposito, Brad Richards, and Dave Andreychuk.  The other six Finalists were Henry Paul, Jay Feaster, Pavel Kubina, Nikolai Khabibulin, Ben Bishop, and Ryan Callahan.

Bradley was an original member of the Lightning, having been drafted by the Lighting in the 1992 Expansion Draft.  Joining the new squad at 28, Bradley, who had never scored 50 Points in a season, exploded for 86 in Tampa’s inaugural year and went to his first All-Star Game.  He was an All-Star again the year after and had two more 60-plus Point campaigns with the Bolts.  Overall, Bradley compiled 300 Points in 328 Games in Tampa Bay.

Peckham was the play-by-play broadcaster for the Hartford Whalers from 1984 to 1995 and became Tampa Bay’s lead voice from 1995 to 2020.  He earned the prestigious Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in 2020.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending members of the Tampa Bay Lightning Hall of Fame.