For the Boston Bruins, it’s sunshine and bear attacks. For the Tampa Bay Lightning, it’s weather patterns and pirates.
On Feb. 1, 2026 at Raymond james Stadium — home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers — it’s two more jerseys in the tradition of the NHL Stadium Series’ bold design choices.
“They really capture what the Stadium Series is about: taking chances, leaning in, designing toward the future of the game and having fun doing it,” said Dom Fillion, creative director for Fanatics.
The Bruins are playing in their sixth NHL outdoor game, while the Lightning are playing in their second. The Bolts’ font and “stair step” design on the front reference their first outdoor game sweaters worn in Nashville in 2022.
As the Stadium Series is being held at the home of the Buccaneers — and during Tampa’s Gasparilla festival — there’s pirate inspiration found throughout the Lightning jersey.
The jerseys feature a new patch logo for the Lightning on the shoulder. It’s a crest with the team’s name wrapped around a white skull with a lightning bolt on its head — a little Ziggy Stardust, a little Jolly Roger — and two pirate sabers crossed at the bottom. Fillion said the Lightning have done variations of skull logos before on fan jerseys, but this custom art logo is the first time they’ll wear one on a game jersey.
Like Mardi Gras,the Gasparilla festival has become synonymous with the wearing (and throwing) of plastic beads. While Fanatics wouldn’t explicitly cite Gasparilla as an inspiration, there are blue and white strands of “pirate beads” inside the collar of the Stadium Series jersey.
The “pirate beads” are also found on the embossing within the light blue stripes around the waist and the arms of the sweater. They connect the team’s “bolt for Life” logo with the lightning bolt skull found on the shoulder patch, which Fanatics said is meant to “recognize the team’s season ticket base.”
As they do on every specialty jersey, there’s a small patch on the back of the sweater as an “Easter Egg” for fans. On these Lightning jerseys, it’s a tattered Lightning logo flag that looks as if it coudl have been been raised on a pirate ship.