Game

Lightning at Capitals

Capitals 3, Lightning 2 in overtime · first star Tom Wilson (1 G, 2 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Tampa Bay Lightning 2 at Washington Capitals 3

Lightning TBL

2 FINAL/OT 3

Capitals WSH

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Capital One Arena, Washington · TV ESPN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Lightning	1	0	1	0	2	19
Capitals	0	1	1	1	3	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Lightning attack left, Capitals attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so a mark in a team's own end would be an attempt logged from there (none in this game). Boxscore shots on goal: TBL 19, WSH 28.

TBL in red WSH in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 19 shots on goal (2 goals, 10 missed, 8 blocked) attacking left; Capitals 28 shots on goal (3 goals, 19 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT
1st	8	1	13	7	0	15
2nd	5	0	13	8	1	25
3rd	6	1	11	11	1	18
OT	0	0	0	2	1	6
Total	19	2	37	28	3	64

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TBL SOG	TBL G	WSH SOG	WSH G
Even strength	17	1	25	2
Power play	2	1	3	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Capitals took 63.4% of the shot attempts, and 58.3% of the 84 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Capitals and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Lightning hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Lightning at Capitals
Period	WSH CF%	WSH FF%
1st	53.6	45.0
2nd	65.8	65.5
3rd	62.1	63.6
OT	100.0	100.0
Game	63.4	61.8

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

07:06 Jake Guentzel (1) Ryan McDonagh (1), Anthony Cirelli (1) · wrist 1–0

2nd period

17:38 Aliaksei Protas (3) Connor McMichael (1), Tom Wilson (2) · snap 1–1

3rd period

01:23 Brayden Point (2) PP Victor Hedman (3), Nikita Kucherov (1) · tip-in 2–1
04:56 Tom Wilson (2) PP Dylan Strome (1), John Carlson (2) · tip-in 2–2

Overtime

01:19 Jakob Chychrun (1) Tom Wilson (3), Dylan Strome (2) · snap 2–3

Three stars

Tom Wilson WSH · R #43 · 1 G, 2 A
Jakob Chychrun WSH · D #6 · 1 G, 0 A
Brayden Point TBL · C #21 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	13:58	TBL	Nikita Kucherov	hooking	2	Dylan Strome
2nd	06:18	TBL	Emil Lilleberg	tripping	2	Nic Dowd
2nd	13:47	WSH	Ryan Leonard	slashing	2	Victor Hedman
2nd	19:26	WSH	Alex Ovechkin	slashing	2	J.J. Moser
3rd	03:35	TBL	Emil Lilleberg	cross checking	2	Ryan Leonard
3rd	05:22	TBL	Curtis Douglas	roughing	2	Jakob Chychrun
3rd	05:22	WSH	Jakob Chychrun	roughing	2	Curtis Douglas
3rd	05:22	WSH	Trevor van Riemsdyk	roughing	2	Conor Geekie
3rd	05:22	TBL	Conor Geekie	roughing	2	Trevor van Riemsdyk

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brayden Point #21	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	50.0	20:13
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	19:45
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	56.5	17:33
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	2	0.0	21:05
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	24:41
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	1	1	-1	0	0	4	0	0.0	24:04
Conor Geekie #14	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	50.0	07:52
Curtis Douglas #42	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	0.0	07:05
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	12:51
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	38.5	16:38
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	18:17
Mitchell Chaffee #41	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	08:04
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:49
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	14:53
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	0.0	15:53
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	3	0	0.0	23:18
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	25:26
Max Crozier #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	04:27

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	O	28	25	3	.893	23/25	2/3	61:01

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tom Wilson #43	R	1	2	3	+2	3	3	0	0	0.0	20:21
Dylan Strome #17	C	0	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	65.4	21:48
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	1	0	1	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	18:30
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	1	0	1	+1	4	3	0	2	0.0	20:40
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	37.5	13:33
John Carlson #74	D	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	26:10
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	50.0	08:16
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	0	0	-1	3	1	0	0	0.0	12:48
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	46.7	16:39
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	+1	3	3	0	2	0.0	18:33
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	14:08
Sonny Milano #15	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:51
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	16:42
Ryan Leonard #9	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	10:35
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	18:19
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:17
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	18:51
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	0.0	14:59

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	W	19	17	2	.895	16/17	1/2	61:19

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.