Tampa Bay Lightning vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, November 24, 2017 · Capital One Arena
NHLN-US · NBCSWA · SUN
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3–1 on Friday, November 24, 2017 at Capital One Arena. The Capitals outshot the Lightning 38–26.
Goals came from Vladislav Namestnikov, Alex Ovechkin, Devante Smith-Pelly and Jay Beagle.
Philipp Grubauer made 25 saves on 26 shots for the win; Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 of 37.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Vladislav Namestnikov (10)Nikita Kucherov (17), Victor Hedman (15)1–001:22 TBL · 
Alex Ovechkin (15)Tom Wilson (6), Nicklas Backstrom (14)1–118:36 WSH
2nd period
Devante Smith-Pelly (3)Jay Beagle (4), Dmitry Orlov (4)1–214:36 WSH
3rd period
Jay Beagle (3)Matt Niskanen (3)1–317:52 WSH ·
Team stats
TBLWSH
2638
31%69%
1/30/3
66
1626
1425
915
79
Penalties
- 0:44 into the first period
Brooks Orpik · hooking2 min - 13:27 into the first period
Ondrej Palat · hooking2 min - 8:37 into the second periodYanni Gourde · hooking2 min
- 11:15 into the second periodVladislav Namestnikov · tripping2 min
- 11:06 into the third periodEvgeny Kuznetsov · high sticking2 min
- 18:11 into the third periodEvgeny Kuznetsov · slashing2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 20:55 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 18:49 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 24:50 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:38 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:56 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:08 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:55 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:36 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:48 |
| 24Ryan CallahanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:20 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:20 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 19:26 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:17 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 23:36 |
| 29Slater KoekkoekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:52 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:41 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:38 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Peter BudajG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | L | 37 | 2 | .946 |
Washington Capitals
| 83Jay BeagleC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 13:16 |
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 9 | 18:19 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:03 |
| 25Devante Smith-PellyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 13:34 |
| 43Tom WilsonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 15:46 |
| 2Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 24:30 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 22:16 |
| 10Brett ConnollyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:57 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:24 |
| 18Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:59 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:13 |
| 39Alex ChiassonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:42 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:37 |
| 92Evgeny KuznetsovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:07 |
| 4Taylor ChorneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:57 |
| 22Madison BoweyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:09 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 20:49 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Philipp GrubauerG | W | 26 | 1 | .962 |
| 70Braden HoltbyG | 0 | 0 | – |