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The Washington Capitals were blanked by the Tampa Bay Lightning by a score of 3-0 at Amalie Arena on Saturday night to fall to 5-2-0 this season. Washington’s winning-streak ended at five games. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren made 18 saves in the loss.
Washington’s Lines
Aliaksei Protas – Dylan Strome – Alex Ovechkin
Connor McMichael – Pierre-Luc Dubois – Tom Wilson
Jakub Vrana – Hendrix Lapierre – Andrew Mangiapane
Brandon Duhaime – Nic Dowd – Taylor Raddysh
Jakob Chychrun – John Carlson
Martin Fehervary – Dylan McIlrath
Rasmus Sandin – Trevor Van Riemsdyk
Lindgren
Logan Thompson
- Scratched
- LW Sonny Milano
- D Alexander Alexeyev
- Injured:
- D Matt Roy (lower-body)
- C Nicklas Backstrom (hip)
- RW T.J. Oshie (back)
Tampa Bay’s Lines
Jake Guentzel – Brayden Point – Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Conor Geekie
Michael Eyssimont – Nick Paul – Mitchell Chaffee
Zemgus Girgensons – Luke Glendening – Cam Atkinson
Victor Hedman – J.J. Moser
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg – Nick Perbix
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson
First Period
Scoring
Stats
- 7-7 in shots
- .63 Washington on faceoffs
- 16-4 Washington in hits
- 7-3 Tampa Bay in blocked shots
- 9-4 Washington in giveaways
- 3-1 Tampa Bay in takeaways
Screenshots: Natural StatTrick
Second Period
Scoring
- 6:27, 1-0 Tampa Bay: Paul wristed one over the glove of Lindgren from the top of the left circled after Essymont caught the puck after it rimmed around the boards and made a quick pass to Paul down low. Chaffee got a touch on the puck in front of Lindgren.
Mitch gets the scoring started 🚨#GoBolts | 📺 FanDuel Sports Network pic.twitter.com/X6bjyAnHHy
— FanDuel Sports Network Florida & Sun (@FanDuelSN_FL) October 27, 2024
- At 7:48, Duhaime threw Lilleberg down to the ice along the end boards.
#ALLCAPS Duhaime drops the gloves pic.twitter.com/G0Bzg6Ow6c
— x – Capitals Replays 🍁 (@capsreplays) October 27, 2024
Stats
- 24-15 Washington in shots
- .59 Washington on faceoffs
- each team failed to score on one power play
- 23-7 Washington in hits
- 12-10 Tampa Bay in blocked shots
- 14-11 Washington in giveaways
- 4-2 Tampa Bay in takeaways
Third Period
Strome left Washington’s bench after taking a puck to the face off of a faceoff but retruned.
#ALLCAPS Strome down the tunnel after this pic.twitter.com/lLniRor9yE
— x – Capitals Replays 🍁 (@capsreplays) October 27, 2024
Scoring
- 2:26, 2-0: Point finished a give-and-go with Kucherov, who was in the low left dot, into an open cage in front after driving to the net.
Kuch and Pointer keepin’ things exciting 👏 pic.twitter.com/a0gF10tQCx
— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) October 27, 2024
- 3:10, 3-0: Geekie one-timed a slapper over the blocker of Lindgren from the left dot after Hagel ripped off Lapierre in the slot and slid the biscuit to Geekie.
Proud members of the Geek Squad 🤝 pic.twitter.com/yHptI7NaBf
— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) October 27, 2024
Stats
- 31-21 Washington in shots
- .58 Washington on faceoffs
- Washington finished 0-for-two on power plays
- 30-12 Washington in hits
- 20-15 Tampa Bay in blocked shots
- 15-14 Washington in giveaways
- 7-3 Tampa Bay in takeaways
Next game: Tuesday vs. New York Rangers (7:30 PM ET, ESPN)
By Harrison Brown
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