National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 3, Tampa Bay 2
When: 7:30 PM ET, Saturday, December 15, 2007
Where: Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa, Florida
Referees: Greg Devorski, Tom Kowal
Linesmen: Mike Cvik, Pat Dapuzzo
Attendance: 18367
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Washington 1113
Tampa Bay 1102
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
4:28 - Lightning Paul Ranger (EV) Assists: Vincent Lecavalier
14:26 - Capitals Tomas Fleischmann (EV) Assists: Michael Nylander , Alexander Semin
Penalties
5:03 - Capitals Tomas Fleischmann (2) Slashing
 6:16 - Lightning Martin St. Louis (2) Tripping
 6:48 - Lightning Mathieu Darche (2) Goaltender interference
 10:49 - Capitals Shaone Morrisonn (2) Slashing
2nd Period
Scoring
0:08 - Capitals David Steckel (EV) Assists: Brian Pothier
5:50 - Lightning Vincent Lecavalier (EV) Assists: Vinny Prospal
Penalties
10:23 - Capitals Alexander Semin (2) Boarding
 13:20 - Lightning Filip Kuba (4) High sticking
3rd Period
Scoring
5:06 - Capitals Brian Pothier (PP) Assists: Matt Pettinger , Tomas Fleischmann
Penalties
3:23 - Lightning Shane O'Brien (2) High sticking
 12:05 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (2) Tripping
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Brent Johnson G 0 0 0 0 0 59:59 45:03 7:44 7:12 0 0 - - - - -
Olaf Kolzig G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Brian Pothier D 1 1 2 +1 0 3 26 16:07 12:10 1:17 2:40 1 0 - - - - -
Tom Poti D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 27 22:17 16:18 1:31 4:28 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Ovechkin LW 0 0 0 -2 2 7 19 21:02 14:38 6:23 0:01 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Bradley RW 0 0 0 +1 0 2 15 11:21 11:17 0:04 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Pettinger LW 0 1 1 -2 0 0 23 17:02 12:12 1:46 3:04 0 0 - - - - -
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 19 19:54 14:00 5:54 0:00 0 0 - - 1 3 25
Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 E 0 1 20 14:44 10:57 0:54 2:53 0 0 - - 3 5 38
Milan Jurcina D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 20 16:18 14:54 0:00 1:24 0 0 - - - - -
Viktor Kozlov RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 13:09 12:06 1:03 0:00 0 0 - - 2 1 67
Shaone Morrisonn D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 27 21:34 18:21 0:04 3:09 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Semin LW 0 1 1 +1 2 4 13 12:43 8:24 4:19 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
David Steckel LW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 26 16:45 12:01 0:24 4:20 0 0 - - 10 12 45
Tomas Fleischmann C 1 1 2 +1 2 2 15 11:49 9:44 2:05 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Green C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 26 21:58 15:50 6:08 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Quintin Laing LW 0 0 0 +1 0 3 23 15:11 10:58 0:04 4:09 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Schultz D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 23 15:01 12:16 0:00 2:45 0 0 - - - - -
Donald Brashear LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 10 9:20 9:20 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Nylander C 0 1 1 +1 0 4 15 15:46 9:17 6:29 0:00 0 0 - - 6 4 60
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Marc Denis G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Johan Holmqvist G 0 0 0 0 0 58:41 43:44 7:13 7:44 0 0 - - - - -
Doug Janik D 0 0 0 E 0 0 12 10:55 9:49 0:00 1:06 0 0 - - - - -
Vincent Lecavalier C 1 1 2 +1 0 3 22 24:54 16:19 5:47 2:48 0 0 - - 11 8 58
Jason Ward RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 16 14:07 9:54 1:40 2:33 0 0 - - 2 0 100
Jan Hlavac LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 12 11:12 10:16 0:56 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Brad Richards C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 24 28:39 17:49 7:04 3:46 0 0 - - 6 11 35
Vinny Prospal LW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 19 22:31 18:13 4:18 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Mathieu Darche LW 0 0 0 -1 2 3 20 16:28 15:04 1:24 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Andreas Karlsson C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 20 16:29 14:24 1:26 0:39 0 0 - - 3 1 75
Martin St. Louis RW 0 0 0 +1 2 3 23 27:04 17:29 6:08 3:27 0 0 - - - - -
Craig MacDonald C 0 0 0 E 0 0 6 4:34 3:47 0:00 0:47 0 0 - - 1 2 33
Andre Roy RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 9 7:23 7:23 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Brad Lukowich D 0 0 0 E 0 0 26 21:24 17:00 0:09 4:15 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Lundin D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15 11:39 11:19 0:00 0:20 0 0 - - - - -
Blair Jones C 0 0 0 E 0 0 1 0:09 0:09 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Paul Ranger D 1 0 1 +1 0 2 26 24:12 17:17 1:41 5:14 0 0 - - - - -
Shane O'Brien D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 26 20:28 18:01 0:00 2:27 0 0 - - - - -
Filip Kuba D 0 0 0 +1 4 2 24 24:35 16:57 5:32 2:06 0 0 - - - - -
Nick Tarnasky C 0 0 0 E 0 0 6 4:52 4:52 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Goaltending
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Brent Johnson W (7-8-2) 25 23 2 .920 0 59:59
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Johan Holmqvist L (21-16-6) 32 29 3 .906 0 58:41