Game

Capitals at Lightning

Lightning 3, Capitals 2 · first star Brandon Hagel (1 G, 1 A).

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

Washington Capitals 2 at Tampa Bay Lightning 3

Capitals WSH

2 FINAL 3

Lightning TBL

Saturday, November 8, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Capitals	1	1	0	2	30
Lightning	2	0	1	3	20

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Capitals attack left, Lightning 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: WSH 30, TBL 20.

WSH in red TBL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Capitals 31 shots on goal (2 goals, 19 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 20 shots on goal (3 goals, 9 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	13	1	22	8	2	12
2nd	10	1	21	8	0	18
3rd	8	0	18	4	1	13
Total	31	2	61	20	3	43

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	WSH SOG	WSH G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	26	2	19	2
Power play	2	0	1	1
Short-handed	3	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Capitals took 58.6% of the shot attempts, and 56.2% of the 89 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 Lightning and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Capitals hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Capitals at Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	35.3	31.0
2nd	46.1	40.7
3rd	41.9	39.1
Game	41.4	36.7

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:06 Brandon Duhaime (1) Ethen Frank (2), Nic Dowd (3) · snap 1–0
06:07 Emil Lilleberg (1) Jake Guentzel (9), Charle-Edouard D'Astous (3) · snap 1–1
15:09 Jake Guentzel (6) PP Victor Hedman (12), Brandon Hagel (7) · tip-in 1–2

2nd period

17:08 John Carlson (4) Unassisted 2–2

3rd period

08:42 Brandon Hagel (7) Dominic James (3), Charle-Edouard D'Astous (4) · snap 2–3

Three stars

Brandon Hagel TBL · L #38 · 1 G, 1 A
Jake Guentzel TBL · C #59 · 1 G, 1 A
Charle-Edouard D'Astous TBL · D #51 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	11:07	TBL	Emil Lilleberg	hooking	2	Justin Sourdif
1st	13:59	WSH	Aliaksei Protas	high sticking	2	Nikita Kucherov
2nd	16:49	WSH	Ryan Leonard	roughing	2	Jack Finley
2nd	16:49	TBL	Jack Finley	roughing	2	Ryan Leonard
3rd	16:12	TBL	Victor Hedman	slashing	2	Tom Wilson
3rd	16:12	WSH	Tom Wilson	cross checking	2	Victor Hedman
3rd	18:22	WSH	John Carlson	hooking	2	Victor Hedman
3rd	19:44	WSH	Tom Wilson	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
3rd	20:00	WSH	Jakob Chychrun	fighting (major)	5	Erik Cernak
3rd	20:00	TBL	Erik Cernak	fighting (major)	5	Jakob Chychrun

Boxscore

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	100.0	11:06
John Carlson #74	D	1	0	1	+2	3	0	0	2	0.0	18:59
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	1	1	+1	0	4	0	0	66.7	14:20
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	12:19
Dylan Strome #17	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	61.5	20:44
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:30
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	66.7	07:31
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-1	3	1	1	0	0.0	17:49
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	0	0	0	+1	5	2	1	2	0.0	19:18
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	37.5	17:21
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	100.0	16:08
Ryan Leonard #9	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	2	0.0	13:11
Tom Wilson #43	R	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	12	50.0	18:11
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	5	0.0	24:58
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	17:27
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	0.0	23:08
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	18:56
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	2	0	0.0	15:22

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	L	20	17	3	.850	17/19	0/1	57:54

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	62.5	22:31
Brandon Hagel #38	L	1	1	2	0	4	1	0	0	100.0	20:18
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	2	2	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	19:37
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	1	0	1	+1	1	1	1	2	0.0	20:24
Dominic James #17	C	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	40.0	12:51
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	17:51
Brayden Point #21	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	44.4	19:06
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	+1	1	4	0	0	50.0	12:26
Jack Finley #62	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	22.2	09:44
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	28.6	15:27
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	54.5	14:15
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	22:34
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	3	0	0.0	16:07
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	10:16
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	15:42
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	5	0.0	18:58
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	20:00
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	06:19

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	30	29	2	.967	24/25	2/2	59:34

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.