It's official. The 2013-14 season is getting underway with training camp starting on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. It will include those playing in the rookie tournament in Coral Springs this weekend, plus 38 other players.

From the Lightning:

Of those players invited to camp and not participating in Coral Springs, there are 20 forwards, 14 defensemen and four goaltenders. All of those players but three, Even Rankin, Drew Olson and Geoff Walker, spent at least some time in the Lightning system last season. The 62 players will be broken into three practice groups. Players will begin medical and physical testing at 8 a.m. on September 11. Players will be available to the media once they have completed their testing and other obligations. They will hit the ice for the first time on Thursday, September 12 and Friday, September 13 with the following schedule (subject to change): GROUP THOMAS 9 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - Practice GROUP BOWNESS 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Practice

11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. - Flood

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Practice GROUP GWOZDECKY 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Practice

2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Flood

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Practice

If you want to attend, however, you'll have to do it on Thursday, as the Friday practice is closed. However, practices in Estero from Sept. 23 through Sept 28, surrounding the preseason game against the Florida Panthers, are open.

And here's the roster:

FORWARDS

No. NAME HT WT DOB ACQUIRED 2012-13 CLUB 10 ANGELIDIS, MIKE 6-1 210 6/27/85 FA (8/3/10) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 14 CONNOLLY, BRETT 6-2 181 5/2/92 '10 DRAFT (1ST RD) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 19 CROMBEEN, B.J. 6-2 210 7/10/85 TRADE W/STL (7/10/12) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 51 FILPPULA, VALTTERI 6-0 195 3/20/84 FA (7/5/13) DETROIT (NHL) 9 JOHNSON, TYLER 5-9 175 7/29/90 FA (3/7/11) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 17 KILLORN, ALEXANDER 6-2 205 9/14/89 '07 DRAFT (3RD RD) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 76 LABRIE, PIERRE-CEDRIC 6-2 220 12/6/86 FA (12/29/11) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 12 MALONE, RYAN 6-4 219 12/1/79 TRADE W/PIT (6/28/08) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 41 NIELSON, ERIC 6-1 211 8/18/84 INVITEE SYRACUSE (AHL) 74 PALAT, ONDREJ 6-0 180 3/28/91 '11 DRAFT (7TH RD) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 71 PANIK, RICHARD 6-2 215 2/7/91 '09 DRAFT (2ND RD) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 43 PARADIS, PHILIPPE 6-2 205 TRADE W/CHI (4/2/13) SYRACUSE (AHL) 16 PURCELL, TEDDY 6-2 201 9/8/85 TRADE W/ LAK (3/3/10) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 11 PYATT, TOM 5-11 187 2/14/87 FA (7/6/11) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 75 RANKIN, EVAN 6-1 180 3/28/86 INVITEE SYRACUSE (AHL)

ROCHESTER (AHL)

TOLEDO (ECHL) 26 ST. LOUIS, MARTIN 5-8 176 6/18/75 FA (6/31/00) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 91 STAMKOS, STEVEN 6-1 188 2/7/90 '08 DRAFT (1ST RD) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 44 THOMPSON, NATE 6-0 210 10/5/84 WAIVERS (2/13/10) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 42 TYRELL, DANA 5-11 185 4/23/89 '07 DRAFT (2ND RD) TAMPA BAY (NHL)

SYRACUSE (AHL) 58 WALKER, GEOFF 6-3 225 12/9/87 FA (7/5/13) LAKE ERIE (AHL)

DEFENSEMAN

No. NAME HT WT DOB ACQUIRED 2012-13 CLUB 3 AULIE, KEITH 6-6 217 6/11/89 TRADE W/TOR (2/27/12) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 8 BARBERIO, MARK 6-1 200 3/23/90 '08 DRAFT (6TH RD) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 2 BREWER, ERIC 6-3 220 4/17/79 TRADE W/STL (2/18/11) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 25 CARLE, MATT 6-0 205 9/25/84 FA (7/4/12) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 60 COTE, JP 6-2 213 4/22/82 INVITEE SYRACUSE (AHL)

NORFOLK (AHL)

ONTARIO (ECHL) 7 GUDAS, RADKO 6-0 205 6/5/90 '10 DRAFT (3RD RD) SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 77 HEDMAN, VICTOR 6-6 229 12/18/90 '09 DRAFT (1ST RD) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 24 KOROBOV, DMITRY 6-3 230 3/12/89 FA (8/2/12) SYRACUSE (AHL) 64 LANDRY, CHARLES 6-1 187 6/3/91 FA (9/15/10) FLORIDA (ECHL)

SYRACUSE (AHL) 15 LEE, BRIAN 6-3 205 3/26/87 TRADE W/OTT (2/27/12) TAMPA BAY (NHL)

SYRACUSE (AHL) 45 MORMINA, JOEY 6-6 220 6/29/82 FA (7/3/13) SYRACUSE (AHL)

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON (AHL) 5 OHLUND, MATTIAS 6-4 229 9/9/76 FA (7/1/09) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 6 SALO, SAMI 6-3 212 9/2/74 FA (7/1/12) TAMPA BAY (NHL) 55 TAORMINA, MATT 5-9 190 10/20/86 FA (7/6/12) SYRACUSE (AHL)

GOALTENDERS

No. NAME HT WT DOB ACQUIRED 2012-13 CLUB 30 BISHOP, BEN 6-7 214 11/21/86 TRADE W/OTT (4/3/13) OTTAWA (NHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 31 DESJARDINS, CEDRIC 6-0 192 9/30/85 TRADE W/MTL (2/14/13) HAMILTON (AHL)

SYRACUSE (AHL)

TAMPA BAY (NHL) 35 HELENIUS, RIKU 6-3 211 3/1/88 '06 DRAFT (1ST RD) SYRACUSE (AHL) 39 LINDBACK, ANDERS 6-6 203 5/3/88 TRADE W/NSH (6/15/12) TAMPA BAY (NHL)

Left off that roster is Ben Bishop's mask, which will (hopefully) be making it's long, long, loooong awaited debut.

And the practice groups:

GROUP THOMAS

Brassard, Eric

Brassart, Brady

Dotchin, Jake

Gauthier, Danick

Gudlevskis, Kristers

Ikonen, Henri

Landry, Charles

Langelier-Parent, Maxime

Milan, Dan

Neilson, Eric

Nielsen, Carl

Olson, Drew

Paradis, Philippe

Rankin, Evan

Welychka, Brett

Witkowski, Luke

GROUP BOWNESS

Aulie, Keith

Bjujus, Dylan

Connolly, Brett

Cote, Jean-Phillipe

Desjardins, Cedric

Drouin, Jonathan

Erne, Adam

Hedman, Victor

Johnson, Tyler

Labrie, Pierre-Cedric

Lindback, Anders

Malone, Ryan

Mormina, Joey

Namestnikov, Vladislav

Panik, Richard

Richard, Tanner

Salo, Sami

St. Louis, Marty

Stamkos, Steven

Sustr, Andrej

Taormina, Matt

Walker, Geoff

GROUP GWOZDECKY

Angelidis, Mike

Barberio, Mark

Bishop, Ben

Brewer, Eric

Brown, JT

Carle, Matt

Crombeen, BJ

Filppula, Valtteri

Gudas, Radko

Helenius, Riku

Killorn, Alex

Koekkoek, Slater

Korobov, Dmitry

Kucherov, Nikita

Nesterov, Nikita

Palat, Ondrej

Paquette, Cedric

Purcell, Teddy

Pyatt, Tom

Sergeev, Artem

Thompson, Nate

Tyrell, Dana

Again, those players in the rookie camp and tournament will also be involved. You can find that roster here. The Lightning rookies have completed their first game this afternoon, playing the Boston Bruins rookies to a 5-5 tie and tying the obligatory shootout as well. [Let's hear it: Oh goody, a tie *and* a shootout. It's the worst of both worlds.]