WASHINGTON (WWSB) – Tampa Bay fell short in its quest to sweep a recent back-to-back road trip, falling to the Capitals in overtime on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
The Lightning struck first in the opening stanza, as Ryan McDonagh found Jake Guentzel on the inside edge 7:06 into the contest. Tampa would maintain the 1-0 lead into the second period. <\/p>\n
Aliaksei Protas knotted things up at 1-1 in the second period at the 17:38 mark, but a deflection off the stick of Tampa\u2019s Brayden Point from Vicktor Hedman up top on the power play gave the Lightning the one goal lead again early in the third. <\/p>\n
A few minutes later, the Capitals answered on a power play goal of their own, with Tom Wilson the beneficiary off a long deflection.<\/p>\n
Play would enter extras, where Washington won the opening face-off and didn\u2019t look back. Jakob Chychrun scored the game-winner off the assist from Wilson 1:19 into overtime, without the Lightning having a possession in the extra frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough man,\u201d Lightning Head Coach Jon Cooper said after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cCause, you know you can make mistakes in games, then make more mistakes than we did tonight and win games. And sometimes you make a couple and it doesn\u2019t go your way. But we got better as a team this entire trip, and ultimately we played a back-to-back, got three-out-of-four points. (If) we did that all year I\u2019d be loving it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Some Lightning players echoed their coach\u2019s sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say there\u2019s quite a few positive points,\u201d Lightning Defenseman J.J. Moser said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say our performance over the whole sixty minutes was pretty decent. It\u2019s unfortunate that we couldn\u2019t get that second point, but that\u2019s how it happens sometimes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree-out-of-four is usually pretty good for a back-to-back,\u201d Tampa Bay Forward Brayden Point said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, I mean it\u2019s so early in the season, but we\u2019ve dug ourselves a little bit of a hole, and two wins would\u2019ve been really big for us. But, I think there\u2019s definitely positives we can take out of these two games, and move forward,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The Lightning have a few off days before heading into another back-to-back road trip to Detroit and Columbus on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
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