Tampa Bay Lightning vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Tuesday, February 20, 2018 · Capital One Arena
SNP · TVAS · NBCSWA · SUN
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Washington Capitals 4–2 on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at Capital One Arena. The Capitals outshot the Lightning 37–19.
Brayden Point scored twice. Chris Kunitz, Lars Eller, Alex Ovechkin and Nikita Kucherov also scored.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 35 saves on 37 shots for the win; Braden Holtby stopped 15 of 19.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Brayden Point (22)Ryan Callahan (9), Yanni Gourde (23)1–002:30 TBL · 
Chris Kunitz (10)Andrej Sustr (3), Ryan Callahan (10)2–016:00 TBL- Brayden Point (23)Anton Stralman (11)3–017:52 TBL
2nd period
Lars Eller (12)Dmitry Orlov (14), Brett Connolly (6)3–109:32 WSH ·
3rd period
Alex Ovechkin (36)Matt Niskanen (15)3–211:02 WSH
Nikita Kucherov (32)Braydon Coburn (10)4–212:58 TBL
Team stats
TBLWSH
1937
54%46%
1/21/2
44
1519
1913
1210
95
Penalties
- 0:34 into the first period
Brett Connolly · interference2 min - 7:50 into the second period
Vladislav Namestnikov · tripping2 min - 4:36 into the third periodRyan Callahan · slashing2 min
- 17:41 into the third periodBrooks Orpik · cross checking2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 21Brayden PointC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 18:50 |
| 24Ryan CallahanR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:58 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:46 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:56 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:49 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21:08 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 12:58 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 12:23 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:20 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:06 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:08 |
| 73Adam ErneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:37 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:07 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:37 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:22 |
| 59Jake DotchinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:47 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26:52 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:34 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70Louis DomingueG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 37 | 2 | .946 |
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 23:14 |
| 10Brett ConnollyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14:24 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14:17 |
| 2Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 27:12 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25:11 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:46 |
| 18Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:51 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:40 |
| 25Devante Smith-PellyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 07:40 |
| 43Tom WilsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:18 |
| 65Andre BurakovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:13 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 19:20 |
| 83Jay BeagleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:21 |
| 92Evgeny KuznetsovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:39 |
| 22Madison BoweyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:24 |
| 29Christian DjoosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:54 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 14:51 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 23:00 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Philipp GrubauerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 70Braden HoltbyG | L | 19 | 4 | .789 |