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The Washington Capitals are losers of five of their last six. Now, they’re in Florida to try and reverse their losing ways.
Tonight, our heroes will take on the Tampa Bay Lightning, who have won six of their last seven games. Ethen Frank will get back into the lineup in favor of Sonny Milano while Justin Sourdif will move to third line center and skate with Hendrix Lapierre and Ryan Leonard.
The game is the Capitals’ third in four nights and marks the second of their current four-game road trip.
Puck drop for tonight’s game is shortly after 7:00 pm. Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin have the call on Monumental Sports Network 2.
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Washington Capitals
Ovechkin
Strome
Beauvillier
Tampa Bay Lightning
Girgensons
Gourde
Holmberg
Tunnel shenanigans
1st Period
Puck is dropped. Duhaime-Dowd-Frank and Sandin-TVR get the start.
Lightning humming in the offensive zone already. Nikita Kucherov with a huge one-timer from the right circle. Logan Thompson makes a big save.
Ethen Frank with a great pass to give Doggie his first goal of the year.
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1-0 Washington Capitals
Goal: Brandon Duhaime (1). Assists: E. Frank (2), N. Dowd (3). Time: 4:06
Lilleberg completely unguarded coming down the seam as both Ryan Leonard and Hendrix Lapierre don’t guard him. Third line gonna watch a lot of the game tonight on the bench after that one.
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1-1 tie
Goal: Emil Lilleberg (1). Assists: J. Guentzel (9), C. D’Astous (3). Time: 6:05
Brayden Point robbed on a two-on-one. How did Logan get over in time??!!
Capitals go to their first power play of the night as Emil Lilleberg hooks Justin Sourdif at 11:07.
Aliaksei Protas to the box for high-sticking Kucherov off a faceoff at 13:59. Let me just note: that was not a high stick at all what was the ref looking at.
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