Tampa Bay Lightning vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Tuesday, December 19, 2006 · Verizon Center
CSN-DC (HD) · SUN
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Washington Capitals 5–4 on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at Verizon Center. The Lightning outshot the Capitals 35–24.
Martin St. Louis scored twice. Filip Kuba, Alex Ovechkin, Vincent Lecavalier, Jamie Heward, Nikita Alexeev, Kris Beech and Bryan Muir also scored.
Marc Denis made 20 saves on 24 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 30 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Filip Kuba (4)Ryan Craig (8), Vinny Prospal (18)1–007:34 TBL · 
Martin St. Louis (21)Vincent Lecavalier (24), Cory Sarich (6)2–012:54 TBL
Alex Ovechkin (23)Brooks Laich (2), Brian Sutherby (8)2–113:54 WSH
Vincent Lecavalier (19)Filip Kuba (18), Dan Boyle (18)3–117:15 TBL ·
2nd period
- Martin St. Louis (22)Vincent Lecavalier (25), Filip Kuba (19)4–101:35 TBL ·
Jamie Heward (3)Ben Clymer (5), Kris Beech (10)4–208:36 WSH · 
Nikita Alexeev (10)Ruslan Fedotenko (8)5–219:18 TBL
3rd period
Kris Beech (4)Alexander Semin (14), Ben Clymer (6)5–310:29 WSH · 
Bryan Muir (3)Alex Ovechkin (22), Alexander Semin (15)5–412:12 WSH
Team stats
TBLWSH
3524
46%54%
3/52/5
1010
1021
1310
717
97
Penalties
- 6:56 into the first period
Alexander Semin · high sticking2 min - 10:47 into the first period
Brad Richards · hooking2 min - 15:45 into the first periodBrian Pothier · high sticking2 min
- 19:55 into the first periodSteve Eminger · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 8:30 into the second periodTim Taylor · hooking2 min
- 11:43 into the second periodKris Beech · interference2 min
- 1:01 into the third periodChris Clark · elbowing2 min
- 6:20 into the third periodVinny Prospal · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 9:28 into the third periodFilip Kuba · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 13:13 into the third periodCory Sarich · hooking2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 18:04 |
| 71Filip KubaD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 23:52 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 9 | 18:41 |
| 15Nikita AlexeevR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:35 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 12:41 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 18:36 |
| 34Ryan CraigC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 21:51 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:03 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27:34 |
| 9Eric PerrinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:29 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 21:30 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 12:58 |
| 29Dimitri AfanasenkovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:57 |
| 36Andre RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:09 |
| 74Nick TarnaskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 04:56 |
| 3Doug JanikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:32 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:48 |
| 54Paul RangerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:37 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Marc DenisG | W | 24 | 4 | .833 |
| 40Johan HolmqvistG | 0 | 0 | – |
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 21:40 |
| 24Kris BeechC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | 14:44 |
| 27Ben ClymerR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | 16:00 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 19:56 |
| 16Brian SutherbyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14:51 |
| 21Brooks LaichC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:08 |
| 6Jamie HewardD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 21:17 |
| 47Bryan MuirD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 18:40 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 20:51 |
| 15Boyd GordonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15:41 |
| 17Chris ClarkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:32 |
| 18Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:38 |
| 38Jakub KlepisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:19 |
| 39Alexandre GirouxL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:48 |
| 2Brian PothierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:10 |
| 26Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:35 |
| 44Steve EmingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:05 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brent JohnsonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 35 | 5 | .857 |