The Washington Capitals were shut out 3-0 by the Tampa Bay Lightning, ending their five-game winning streak. Despite outshooting Tampa 31-21, the Capitals struggled offensively, failing to beat goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, who recorded his first career shutout against them. Key offensive chances came from Pierre-Luc Dubois, who hit the post and had strong looks but couldn’t score, while Conor Geekie netted his first NHL goal for Tampa. Defensively, the Lightning excelled in backchecking and preventing Capitals’ shots, with goals from Mitchell Chaffee and Nikita Kucherov. Washington’s power play woes continued, going 0-for-17 in their last five games, and they failed to capitalize on their only full opportunity in this match. Player statistics highlighted Dubois and Trevor van Riemsdyk’s four shots each, with Charlie Lindgren stopping 17 of 20 shots. Overall, the game underscored the Capitals’ ongoing challenges with their power play and defensive performance against a well-prepared Lightning team.
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9 Comments
Hello Dan. Just got to shake that Game off.
Carbury is a Good Coach at Teaching what they did wrong between Games. I hope he's Coach here for a long time.
Powerplay is getting to be a serious problem
Looking at Ovi like “Somebody get this man a camel” 🐫
Record looks average since caps lost first and seventh game. They won five in a row though. Caps need to stick it to the th3 rangers in game 7 with Ovechkin scoring like he never did in the playoffs last season.
An ex from the 90s who I never liked said exactly those words to me almost immediately. I love you. Then she said, all misty eyed. Lie to me!! Tell me you love me! Nope. No way was my answer. Hope things work out with caps next season very interesting. Ovechkin should play til 43 like Messier.
Remember the, ‘puck to Ovechkin..SCOOORE!! Then entire NHL critisised him for only shooting from same place. Was an amazing decade. Now he is getting slammed for putting the puck in the empty net. He had 5 in first 15 last year. Same projection now, but he can be better.
He doesnt move just stands there in one spot for 2 minutes every PP … bringing the caps PP to kind of almost a four on four thing 🤔
I know he is on his favorite spot and had a lot of goals from there but it doesnt feel like Caps PP are alive at all this season
You should talk about Miroshnichenko’s hot start in Hershey 6 goals 4 assists in 8 games so far….