Washington Capitals vs Vegas Golden Knights
Playoffs · Thursday, June 7, 2018 · T-Mobile Arena
NBC · CBC · SN · TVAS
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4–3 on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at T-Mobile Arena. The Capitals outshot the Golden Knights 33–31.
Goals came from Jakub Vrana, Nate Schmidt, Alex Ovechkin, David Perron, Reilly Smith, Devante Smith-Pelly and Lars Eller.
Braden Holtby made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 29 of 33.
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
Jakub Vrana (3)Tom Wilson (10), Evgeny Kuznetsov (20)1–006:24 WSH
Nate Schmidt (3)Reilly Smith (17), Jonathan Marchessault (13)1–109:40 VGK
Alex Ovechkin (15)Nicklas Backstrom (18), John Carlson (15)2–110:14 WSH · 
David Perron (1)Tomas Tatar (1), Colin Miller (4)2–212:56 VGK
Reilly Smith (5)Alex Tuch (4), Shea Theodore (7)2–319:31 VGK ·
3rd period
Devante Smith-Pelly (7)Brooks Orpik (4)3–309:52 WSH
Lars Eller (7)Brett Connolly (3), Andre Burakovsky (4)4–312:23 WSH
Team stats
WSHVGK
3331
48%52%
1/41/2
812
2739
1311
615
1022
Penalties
- 11:44 into the first period
Colin Miller · interference2 min - 0:21 into the second periodShea Theodore · tripping2 min
- 3:19 into the second period
Christian Djoos · high sticking2 min - 9:51 into the second periodBrayden McNabb · tripping2 min
- 17:46 into the second periodAlex Ovechkin · tripping2 min
- 19:31 into the second periodBrooks Orpik · roughing2 min
- 19:31 into the second periodReilly Smith · roughing2 min
- 19:31 into the second periodAlex Tuch · roughing2 min
- 19:31 into the second periodJay Beagle · roughing2 min
- 5:37 into the third periodTomas Tatar · hooking2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19:51 |
| 10Brett ConnollyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:10 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:33 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 19:28 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 14:55 |
| 25Devante Smith-PellyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10:10 |
| 43Tom WilsonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:30 |
| 65Andre BurakovskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 09:38 |
| 92Evgeny KuznetsovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 21:02 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:00 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 25:04 |
| 18Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:52 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:16 |
| 83Jay BeagleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:23 |
| 2Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:06 |
| 6Michal KempnyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:59 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:47 |
| 29Christian DjoosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 09:34 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Philipp GrubauerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 70Braden HoltbyG | W | 31 | 3 | .903 |
Vegas Golden Knights
| 19Reilly SmithR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 19:31 |
| 57David PerronL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 16:59 |
| 81Jonathan MarchessaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:36 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 13:55 |
| 90Tomas TatarL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12:08 |
| 6Colin MillerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 15:30 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 26:09 |
| 88Nate SchmidtD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 27:17 |
| 18James NealL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:54 |
| 21Cody EakinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:35 |
| 28William CarrierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:22 |
| 41Pierre-Edouard BellemareL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:20 |
| 56Erik HaulaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:50 |
| 71William KarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 21:07 |
| 92Tomas NosekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:12 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:58 |
| 5Deryk EngellandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:46 |
| 47Luca SbisaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:32 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | L | 33 | 4 | .879 |
| 33Maxime LagaceG | 0 | 0 | – |