Washington Capitals vs Dallas Stars
Regular season · Tuesday, December 19, 2017 · American Airlines Center
FS-SW · NBCSWA+
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Dallas Stars 4–3 in overtime on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at American Airlines Center. The Stars outshot the Capitals 36–28.
Andre Burakovsky scored twice. Jamie Benn, Gemel Smith, Dmitry Orlov, Alexander Radulov and Brett Connolly also scored.
Braden Holtby made 33 saves on 36 shots for the win; Ben Bishop stopped 24 of 28.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Andre Burakovsky (2)Brett Connolly (3), Lars Eller (10)1–010:35 WSH
Jamie Benn (14)John Klingberg (24), Alexander Radulov (17)1–115:14 DAL ·
2nd period
Gemel Smith (4)Dan Hamhuis (8), Jason Spezza (8)1–211:09 DAL
Dmitry Orlov (4)Nicklas Backstrom (21)2–213:12 WSH
3rd period
Alexander Radulov (12)Greg Pateryn (2)2–315:53 DAL
Brett Connolly (7)Andre Burakovsky (5), Lars Eller (11)3–316:34 WSH
Overtime
- Andre Burakovsky (3)John Carlson (23)4–301:51 WSH
Team stats
WSHDAL
2836
50%50%
0/31/4
1412
2419
2115
910
12
Penalties
- 4:31 into the first period
Antoine Roussel · roughing2 min - 4:31 into the first periodAntoine Roussel · roughing2 min
- 4:31 into the first period
Jakub Vrana · roughing2 min - 15:06 into the first periodAntoine Roussel · roughing2 min
- 15:06 into the first periodTom Wilson · roughing2 min
- 15:06 into the first periodTom Wilson · roughing2 min
- 18:49 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 1:11 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 1:57 into the second periodTom Wilson · roughing2 min
- 1:57 into the second periodJamie Benn · roughing2 min
- 14:23 into the second periodJohn Carlson · holding2 min
- 19:05 into the second periodAlexander Radulov · interference2 min
- 7:02 into the third periodTom Wilson · slashing2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 65Andre BurakovskyL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 3 | 13:18 |
| 10Brett ConnollyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 12:54 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 15:03 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:49 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23:39 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 26:52 |
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19:51 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:36 |
| 18Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:57 |
| 39Alex ChiassonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:44 |
| 43Tom WilsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:40 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:08 |
| 83Jay BeagleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:03 |
| 92Evgeny KuznetsovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:38 |
| 2Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:10 |
| 22Madison BoweyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:42 |
| 29Christian DjoosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:09 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:35 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Philipp GrubauerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 70Braden HoltbyG | W | 36 | 3 | .917 |
Dallas Stars
| 47Alexander RadulovR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 20:36 |
| 14Jamie BennL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 18:05 |
| 46Gemel SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 08:10 |
| 90Jason SpezzaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 11:22 |
| 2Dan HamhuisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 21:35 |
| 3John KlingbergD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 24:10 |
| 29Greg PaterynD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 22:06 |
| 10Martin HanzalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:33 |
| 12Radek FaksaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:19 |
| 13Mattias JanmarkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:29 |
| 17Devin ShoreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:11 |
| 18Tyler PitlickC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:36 |
| 21Antoine RousselL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:35 |
| 40Remi ElieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:17 |
| 91Tyler SeguinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | 21:30 |
| 6Julius HonkaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:22 |
| 23Esa LindellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 23:45 |
| 28Stephen JohnsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:00 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ben BishopG | O | 28 | 4 | .857 |
| 32Kari LehtonenG | 0 | 0 | – |