National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 7, Tampa Bay 4
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, January 1, 2009
Where: Verizon Center, Washington, District Of Columbia
Referees: Mike Hasenfratz, Marc Joannette
Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Jonny Murray
Attendance: 18277
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Tampa Bay 0314
Washington 3137
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
3:58 - Capitals Sean Collins (EV) Assists: Alexander Ovechkin , Shaone Morrisonn
8:02 - Capitals David Steckel (EV) Assists: Matt Bradley , Milan Jurcina
18:29 - Capitals Mike Green (EV) Assists: Alexander Ovechkin , Nicklas Backstrom
Penalties
11:28 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (2) Hooking
2nd Period
Scoring
0:58 - Lightning Vincent Lecavalier (EV) Assists: Vinny Prospal , Martin St. Louis
2:37 - Lightning Ryan Malone (EV) Assists: Jeff Halpern
2:48 - Capitals Matt Bradley (EV) Assists: Boyd Gordon
19:44 - Lightning Vincent Lecavalier (EV) Assists: Vinny Prospal , Martin St. Louis
Penalties
2:07 - Lightning Adam Hall (5) Fighting
 2:07 - Capitals Chris Clark (5) Fighting
 7:37 - Capitals Boyd Gordon (2) Hooking
 9:00 - Lightning Steven Stamkos (2) Too many men on ice
3rd Period
Scoring
8:07 - Capitals Boyd Gordon (EV) Unassisted
12:22 - Lightning Mark Recchi (EV) Assists: Martin St. Louis , Andrej Meszaros
12:47 - Capitals Chris Clark (EV) Assists: Michael Nylander , Mike Green
18:14 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (EV) Assists: Nicklas Backstrom
Penalties
0:14 - Lightning Matt Smaby (2) Interference
 2:58 - Lightning Vinny Prospal (2) Hooking
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 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Smith G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 51:14 3:23 5:23 0 0 - - - - -
Vincent Lecavalier C 2 0 2 -1 0 5 24 18:47 16:03 2:10 0:34 0 0 - - 12 5 71
Mark Recchi RW 1 0 1 -2 0 1 19 14:44 11:33 2:06 1:05 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Jeff Halpern C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 28 16:25 13:38 1:17 1:30 0 0 - - 8 6 57
Ryan Malone RW 1 0 1 E 0 2 25 15:48 12:39 1:25 1:44 0 0 - - 0 3 0
Andrej Meszaros D 0 1 1 -2 0 0 35 24:16 19:37 0:58 3:41 0 0 - - - - -
Adam Hall RW 0 0 0 E 5 2 16 8:32 6:42 0:00 1:50 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Vinny Prospal LW 0 2 2 -1 2 2 23 18:33 17:04 1:29 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 36 21:42 19:03 0:00 2:39 0 0 - - - - -
Jamie Heward D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 14 10:52 9:50 1:02 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Pettinger C 0 0 0 E 0 1 16 10:43 10:35 0:00 0:08 0 0 - - - - -
Martin St. Louis RW 0 3 3 -1 0 2 24 18:32 15:40 2:21 0:31 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Smaby D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 28 21:22 19:28 0:00 1:54 0 0 - - - - -
Jussi Jokinen LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 19 13:59 10:51 1:54 1:14 0 0 - - 7 5 58
Paul Szczechura C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 22 15:13 13:09 0:00 2:04 0 0 - - 0 3 0
Steve Eminger D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 31 23:51 21:22 0:00 2:29 0 0 - - - - -
Vladimir Mihalik D 0 0 0 E 0 1 18 13:22 13:19 0:00 0:03 0 0 - - - - -
Evgeny Artyukhin RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 22 14:59 13:57 0:56 0:06 0 0 - - - - -
Steven Stamkos C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 17 12:20 11:03 1:17 0:00 0 0 - - 3 3 50
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 60:00 51:14 5:23 3:23 0 0 - - - - -
Jose Theodore G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Ovechkin LW 1 2 3 E 2 4 26 22:26 16:37 5:01 0:48 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Matt Bradley RW 1 1 2 +3 0 2 18 16:21 14:10 0:09 2:02 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Boyd Gordon RW 1 1 2 +2 2 1 18 11:36 10:55 0:08 0:33 0 0 - - 7 5 58
Eric Fehr RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 14 11:17 10:16 1:01 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Chris Clark RW 1 0 1 +1 5 3 16 11:30 10:51 0:39 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 2 2 +1 0 2 21 19:27 14:58 4:29 0:00 0 0 - - 3 6 33
Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 20 20:35 14:49 3:44 2:02 0 0 - - 3 1 75
Milan Jurcina D 0 1 1 +1 0 2 24 19:28 19:23 0:05 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Viktor Kozlov RW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 22 17:41 14:07 3:34 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Shaone Morrisonn D 0 1 1 E 0 0 24 14:54 13:53 0:00 1:01 0 0 - - - - -
Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 26 20:52 19:35 0:12 1:05 0 0 - - - - -
Alexandre Giroux C 0 0 0 +3 0 2 13 9:36 9:13 0:23 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
David Steckel LW 1 0 1 E 0 2 17 12:43 11:20 0:02 1:21 0 0 - - 6 6 50
Mike Green D 1 1 2 +2 0 2 26 24:30 17:42 4:26 2:22 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Schultz D 0 0 0 +2 0 2 25 20:53 17:33 1:02 2:18 0 0 - - - - -
Chris Bourque LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 14 10:45 10:22 0:23 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Sean Collins D 1 0 1 E 0 1 23 14:18 14:18 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Nylander C 0 1 1 E 0 2 18 17:08 15:31 1:37 0:00 0 0 - - 7 10 41
Goaltending
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Mike Smith L (14-18-9) 35 28 7 .800 0 60:00
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Brent Johnson W (12-6-2) 27 23 4 .852 0 60:00