Lightning re-sign Gabriel Fortier to one-year contract
The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed Gabriel Fortier to a one-year, two-way contract worth $775,000. Fortier will have an American Hockey League (AHL) salary of $100,000.
The #GoBolts re-signed 24 y/o F Gabriel Fortier to 1 year deal
NHL 775K
Minors 100K
Guaranteed 150K
26P in 62 AHL GP
He's tracking to be Group 6 UFA next summer.https://t.co/CR2AFHY33F
The 24-year-old spent the 2023-24 season with the Lightning’s AHL affiliate the Syracuse Crunch where he collected 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points in 62 games. He added one goal and five points in eight Calder Cup Playoff contests.
Fortier scored 11 goals and 29 points in 67 games during the 2022-23 campaign and was there as an important depth piece. He also played a game in the NHL for the Lightning.
Fortier was selected No. 59 overall in the 2018 Draft by Tampa. The Lachine, PQ native had just come off of a 26-goal, 59-point season for Baie-Comeau Drakkar in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). He followed that up with an 83-point campaign the next year and got rewarded with a professional stint in the AHL with Syracuse.
He went back to major junior for the 2019-20 season, ultimately being traded to the Moncton Wildcats later that year. At 21 years old, Fortier made the full-time jump to the AHL, scoring six goals and 10 points in 30 games for the Crunch in 2020-21.
The 2021-22 season was the strongest of his career, where he scored 14 goals and 35 points in 72 games for the Crunch, and played 10 NHL games in Tampa, including one where he scored his first NHL goal.