Tampa Bay Lightning vs Washington Capitals
Playoffs · Tuesday, May 15, 2018 · Verizon Center
NBCSN · CBC · SN · TVAS
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Washington Capitals 4–2 on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at Verizon Center. The Capitals outshot the Lightning 38–23.
Goals came from Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman, Brett Connolly, Brayden Point and Evgeny Kuznetsov.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves on 38 shots for the win; Braden Holtby stopped 19 of 23.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Steven Stamkos (6)Victor Hedman (9), Brayden Point (8)1–013:53 TBL ·
2nd period
Nikita Kucherov (7)Victor Hedman (10), Steven Stamkos (9)2–001:50 TBL · 
Victor Hedman (1)Nikita Kucherov (9), Ondrej Palat (5)3–003:37 TBL
Brett Connolly (4)Chandler Stephenson (4), Matt Niskanen (5)3–110:31 WSH
Brayden Point (6)Tyler Johnson (4), Braydon Coburn (2)4–116:03 TBL
3rd period
Evgeny Kuznetsov (9)T.J. Oshie (6), Lars Eller (7)4–216:58 WSH
Team stats
TBLWSH
2338
56%44%
2/50/3
812
2233
187
109
107
Penalties
- 8:58 into the first period
Anton Stralman · boarding2 min - 12:57 into the first period
Braden Holtby · tripping2 min - 1:34 into the second periodLars Eller · closing hand on puck2 min
- 6:44 into the second periodLars Eller · slashing2 min
- 13:20 into the second periodRyan Callahan · roughing2 min
- 4:01 into the third periodAlex Killorn · interference2 min
- 7:01 into the third periodSteven Stamkos · roughing2 min
- 7:01 into the third periodLars Eller · cross checking2 min
- 7:17 into the third periodMichal Kempny · cross checking2 min
- 12:03 into the third periodEvgeny Kuznetsov · high sticking2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 77Victor HedmanD | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | 25:08 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 21:18 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 16:20 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:54 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:38 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13:55 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12:47 |
| 10J.T. MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:04 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:06 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:33 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:33 |
| 24Ryan CallahanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:36 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:28 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:12 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:29 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:23 |
| 27Ryan McDonaghD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:33 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 10:03 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70Louis DomingueG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 38 | 2 | .947 |
Washington Capitals
| 10Brett ConnollyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 11:52 |
| 18Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 10:13 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:37 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 21:15 |
| 92Evgeny KuznetsovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 12 | 24:52 |
| 2Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 21:24 |
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 25:36 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:54 |
| 25Devante Smith-PellyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:48 |
| 39Alex ChiassonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:07 |
| 43Tom WilsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:24 |
| 65Andre BurakovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:26 |
| 83Jay BeagleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:37 |
| 6Michal KempnyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:53 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 21:29 |
| 29Christian DjoosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:04 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:02 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 26:22 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Philipp GrubauerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 70Braden HoltbyG | L | 23 | 4 | .826 |