The Washington Capitals were blanked by the Tampa Bay Lightning by a score of 3-0 at Amalie Arena on Saturday night to fall to 5-2-0 this season. Washington’s winning-streak ended at five games. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren made 18 saves in the loss.
Washington’s Lines
Aliaksei Protas – Dylan Strome – Alex Ovechkin
Connor McMichael – Pierre-Luc Dubois – Tom Wilson
Jakub Vrana – Hendrix Lapierre – Andrew Mangiapane
Brandon Duhaime – Nic Dowd – Taylor Raddysh
Jakob Chychrun – John Carlson
Martin Fehervary – Dylan McIlrath
Rasmus Sandin – Trevor Van Riemsdyk
Lindgren
Logan Thompson
ScratchedLW Sonny Milano
D Alexander Alexeyev
Injured:D Matt Roy (lower-body)
C Nicklas Backstrom (hip)
RW T.J. Oshie (back)
Tampa Bay’s Lines
Jake Guentzel – Brayden Point – Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Conor Geekie
Michael Eyssimont – Nick Paul – Mitchell Chaffee
Zemgus Girgensons – Luke Glendening – Cam Atkinson
Victor Hedman – J.J. Moser
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg – Nick Perbix
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson
ScratchedD Darren Raddysh
InjuredN/A
First Period
Scoring
N/A
Stats
7-7 in shots
.63 Washington on faceoffs
16-4 Washington in hits
7-3 Tampa Bay in blocked shots
9-4 Washington in giveaways
3-1 Tampa Bay in takeaways
Second Period
Scoring
6:27, 1-0 Tampa Bay: Paul wristed one over the glove of Lindgren from the top of the left circled after Essymont caught the puck after it rimmed around the boards and made a quick pass to Paul down low. Chaffee got a touch on the puck in front of Lindgren.
At 7:48, Duhaime threw Lilleberg down to the ice along the end boards.
24-15 Washington in shotsincluding 16-8 in second
.59 Washington on faceoffs
each team failed to score on one power play
23-7 Washington in hits
12-10 Tampa Bay in blocked shots
14-11 Washington in giveaways
4-2 Tampa Bay in takeaways
Third Period
Strome left Washington’s bench after taking a puck to the face off of a faceoff but retruned.
- 2:26, 2-0: Point finished a give-and-go with Kucherov, who was in the low left dot, into an open cage in front after driving to the net.
- 31-21 Washington in shots
- 7-6 in third
- .58 Washington on faceoffs
- Washington finished 0-for-two on power plays
- Tampa Bay 0-for-three
- 30-12 Washington in hits
- 20-15 Tampa Bay in blocked shots
- 15-14 Washington in giveaways
- 7-3 Tampa Bay in takeaways
