National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 4, Tampa Bay 1
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, April 3, 2008
Where: Verizon Center, Washington, District Of Columbia
Referees: Dan O'Rourke, Tim Peel
Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Mark Pare
Attendance: 18277
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Tampa Bay 1001
Washington 1034
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
0:39 - Lightning Filip Kuba (EV) Assists: Jussi Jokinen , Martin St. Louis
12:01 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (EV) Assists: Viktor Kozlov , Mike Green
Penalties
5:24 - Lightning Matt Smaby (2) Tripping
2nd Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
0:45 - Lightning Vincent Lecavalier (2) High sticking
 3:59 - Capitals Milan Jurcina (2) Hooking
 5:54 - Lightning Mathieu Darche (2) Interference
3rd Period
Scoring
7:50 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (PP) Assists: Mike Green , Nicklas Backstrom
16:43 - Capitals Boyd Gordon (EV) Assists: Matt Bradley , Matt Cooke
18:52 - Capitals Tom Poti (EV) (EN) Assists: Sergei Fedorov , Viktor Kozlov
Penalties
5:05 - Capitals Boyd Gordon (2) Holding
 7:26 - Lightning Jussi Jokinen (2) Cross checking
 8:58 - Capitals John Erskine (4) High sticking
 14:00 - Lightning Matt Smaby (2) Holding
 19:37 - Lightning Doug Janik (2) Roughing
 19:37 - Lightning Doug Janik (10) Misconduct
 19:37 - Lightning Nick Tarnasky (10) Misconduct
 19:44 - Lightning Junior Lessard (5) Fighting
 19:44 - Lightning Jason Ward (10) Misconduct
 19:44 - Lightning Bench (2) Too many men on ice
 19:44 - Capitals Matt Bradley (5) Fighting
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Karri Ramo G 0 0 0 0 0 59:31 42:54 7:55 8:42 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Smith G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alexandre Picard D 0 0 0 E 0 0 26 24:19 15:40 4:07 4:32 0 0 - - - - -
Doug Janik D 0 0 0 E 12 0 7 5:14 5:14 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Vincent Lecavalier C 0 0 0 E 2 4 17 17:39 14:26 3:07 0:06 0 0 - - 5 8 38
Michel Ouellet RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 18 12:36 11:01 1:35 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Halpern C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 28 23:48 15:53 4:44 3:11 0 0 - - 1 7 12
Jason Ward RW 0 0 0 E 10 0 16 12:26 10:17 0:12 1:57 0 0 - - - - -
Mathieu Darche LW 0 0 0 -1 2 1 24 17:41 13:20 2:02 2:19 0 0 - - 0 7 0
Dan Boyle D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 28 26:23 16:04 6:14 4:05 0 0 - - - - -
Andreas Karlsson C 0 0 0 E 0 1 15 9:36 4:59 1:26 3:11 0 0 - - 4 1 80
Martin St. Louis RW 0 1 1 -1 0 3 27 26:18 18:02 6:26 1:50 0 0 - - - - -
Craig MacDonald C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 18 14:43 9:58 0:12 4:33 0 0 - - 6 6 50
Matt Smaby D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 25 16:20 14:16 0:00 2:04 0 0 - - - - -
Jussi Jokinen LW 0 1 1 -1 2 1 19 18:47 14:46 4:01 0:00 0 0 - - 5 4 56
Brad Lukowich D 0 0 0 E 0 0 20 14:59 12:50 0:55 1:14 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Lundin D 0 0 0 E 0 0 23 16:59 13:00 2:37 1:22 0 0 - - - - -
Junior Lessard RW 0 0 0 E 5 0 7 4:04 3:57 0:00 0:07 0 0 - - - - -
Filip Kuba D 1 0 1 -1 0 4 26 21:09 15:05 1:57 4:07 0 0 - - - - -
Nick Tarnasky C 0 0 0 -1 10 0 13 8:31 8:31 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Olaf Kolzig G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Cristobal Huet G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 43:23 8:42 7:55 0 0 - - - - -
Tom Poti D 1 0 1 +1 0 6 26 24:41 17:36 1:49 5:16 0 0 - - - - -
John Erskine D 0 0 0 E 4 1 17 12:10 10:39 0:23 1:08 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Ovechkin LW 2 0 2 +1 0 5 20 23:31 15:57 7:28 0:06 1 0 - - - - -
Matt Bradley RW 0 1 1 +1 5 2 18 13:43 11:01 0:19 2:23 0 0 - - - - -
Eric Fehr RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 10 8:30 8:30 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Boyd Gordon RW 1 0 1 +1 2 2 21 15:15 11:32 0:29 3:14 0 0 - - 11 4 73
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 E 0 1 19 18:41 13:29 5:12 0:00 0 0 - - 6 5 55
Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 E 0 0 21 15:41 9:15 3:24 3:02 0 0 - - 6 5 55
Milan Jurcina D 0 0 0 +1 2 0 19 15:32 13:09 0:05 2:18 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Cooke LW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 20 14:12 10:44 0:00 3:28 0 0 - - - - -
Viktor Kozlov RW 0 2 2 +1 0 7 19 15:17 12:22 2:55 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Semin LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 16:07 10:55 5:12 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tomas Fleischmann C 0 0 0 E 0 1 14 12:32 9:31 3:01 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Steve Eminger D 0 0 0 E 0 1 10 9:08 8:45 0:23 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Green C 0 2 2 +1 0 4 27 27:15 17:50 7:15 2:10 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Schultz D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 29 23:25 18:21 0:06 4:58 0 0 - - - - -
Donald Brashear LW 0 0 0 E 0 3 9 7:53 7:31 0:22 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Sergei Fedorov C 0 1 1 +1 0 2 23 18:27 9:43 5:07 3:37 0 0 - - 9 7 56
Goaltending
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Karri Ramo L (7-11-3) 39 36 3 .923 0 59:31
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Cristobal Huet W (32-14-6) 19 18 1 .947 0 60:00