A two-time Richard Trophy winner as the NHL's leading goal-scorer, Stamkos has reached the 50-goal mark twice and has scored at least 40 goals five times. That total might be higher if not for a broken leg that limited him to 37 games during the 2013-14 season, when he scored 25 goals -- an average of 0.68 per game, a 55-goal pace for a full season. He also had 20 points (nine goals, 11 assists) in 17 games at the start of the 2016-17 season before sustaining a season-ending knee injury, but rebounded with 86 points (27 goals, 59 assists) in 2017-18, then scored 45 goals and finished with an NHL career-high 98 points in 2018-19, helping the Lightning win the Presidents' Trophy and tie the NHL single-season record of 62 victories set by the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings.

Stamkos has emerged as one of the top goal-scorers of his generation since the Tampa Bay Lightning selected him at No. 1 in the 2008 NHL Draft.

Stamkos has emerged as one of the top goal-scorers of his generation since the Tampa Bay Lightning selected him at No. 1 in the 2008 NHL Draft.

A two-time Richard Trophy winner as the NHL's leading goal-scorer, Stamkos has reached the 50-goal mark twice and has scored at least 40 goals five times. That total might be higher if not for a broken leg that limited him to 37 games during the 2013-14 season, when he scored 25 goals -- an average of 0.68 per game, a 55-goal pace for a full season. He also had 20 points (nine goals, 11 assists) in 17 games at the start of the 2016-17 season before sustaining a season-ending knee injury, but rebounded with 86 points (27 goals, 59 assists) in 2017-18, then scored 45 goals and finished with an NHL career-high 98 points in 2018-19, helping the Lightning win the Presidents' Trophy and tie the NHL single-season record of 62 victories set by the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings.

Stamkos is one of two players since 1996, along with Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals, to score 60 goals in a season. He scored 60 in 2011-12, when he finished second to Evgeni Malkin of the Pittsburgh Penguins in voting for the Hart Trophy.

Though Stamkos can score in a variety of ways, he's made his biggest impact with the man-advantage. Stamkos has hit double digits in power-play goals nine times. Many of those goals have come when he has set up near the left circle, taken a pass and fired off his precision one-timer.

On March 6, 2014, he was named the 10th captain in Lightning history, emerging from the tunnel and stepping onto the ice for the first time wearing the "C" in his first game back after sustaining a fractured leg on Nov. 11, 2013.

Stamkos could have become a free agent in the summer of 2016, but opted to stay with the Lightning, signing an eight-year contract. He scored his 400th NHL goal against the Winnipeg Jets on Nov. 16, 2019, becoming the second-fastest active player (behind Ovechkin) to reach the milestone and the first player to score his 400th NHL goal with the Lightning.

A native of Markham, Ontario, Stamkos has been the first player picked in both the Ontario Hockey League draft (by Sarnia in 2006) and the NHL Draft; this puts him in an elite group that includes Eric Lindros, John Tavares and Aaron Ekblad.

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