Washington Capitals vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Saturday, April 3, 1999 · Ice Palace
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Washington Capitals 4–3 on Saturday, April 3, 1999 at Ice Palace. The Capitals outshot the Lightning 34–25.
Goals came from Andrei Nikolishin, Darcy Tucker, James Black, Jassen Cullimore, Stephane Richer, Rob Zamuner and Brian Bellows.
Scoring
1st period
Andrei Nikolishin (8)James Black (14)1–000:28 WSH
Darcy Tucker (19)Petr Svoboda (15), Michael Nylander (10)1–103:10 TBL ·
2nd period
James Black (15)Richard Zednik (7), Andrei Nikolishin (26)2–116:37 WSH
Jassen Cullimore (5)Rob Zamuner (9), Chris Gratton (22)2–219:27 TBL ·
3rd period
Stephane Richer (11)Chris Gratton (23), Sergey Gusev (5)2–308:01 TBL · 
Rob Zamuner (5)Darcy Tucker (21), Mike Sillinger (4)2–408:38 TBL
Brian Bellows (16)Andrei Nikolishin (27), Adam Oates (37)3–411:23 WSH ·
Team stats
WSHTBL
3425
58%42%
1/42/3
1315
1731
67
1612
512
Penalties
- 2:49 into the first period
Joe Reekie · interference2 min - 7:52 into the first periodSergei Gonchar · high sticking2 min
- 14:16 into the first period
Michael Nylander · interference goalkeeper2 min - 1:06 into the second periodChris Gratton · slashing2 min
- 1:06 into the second periodChris Gratton · fighting5 min
- 1:06 into the second periodEnrico Ciccone · roughing2 min
- 1:06 into the second periodEnrico Ciccone · fighting5 min
- 5:44 into the second periodCory Cross · holding2 min
- 17:34 into the second periodPetr Svoboda · tripping2 min
- 6:30 into the third periodJoe Reekie · tripping2 min
- 9:43 into the third periodCorey Spring · roughing2 min
Season series
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