Game

Capitals at Lightning

Lightning 3, Capitals 1 · first star Andrei Vasilevskiy (0 GA, .952 SV%).

2026-27 regular season · 2026-27 regular season, updated nightly. Data as of October 24, 2026, source NHL.

Washington Capitals 1 at Tampa Bay Lightning 3

Capitals WSH

1 FINAL 3

Lightning TBL

Saturday, October 3, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Capitals	0	1	0	1	21
Lightning	2	0	1	3	30

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 the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: WSH 21, TBL 30.

WSH in red TBL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Capitals 21 shots on goal (1 goal, 20 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 30 shots on goal (3 goals, 18 missed, 15 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	5	0	12	14	2	25
2nd	7	1	20	7	0	21
3rd	9	0	29	9	1	17
Total	21	1	61	30	3	63

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	18	1	27	3
Power play	2	0	3	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 50.8% of the shot attempts, and 53.5% of the 86 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	67.6	69.0
2nd	51.2	48.3
3rd	37.0	45.2
Game	50.8	53.9

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

Scoring summary

1st period

02:26 Charle-Edouard D'Astous (1) Brandon Hagel (1), Jake Guentzel (1) · wrist 0–1
16:30 Conor Geekie (1) Brandon Hagel (2), Jake Guentzel (2) · wrist 0–2

2nd period

07:04 Justin Sourdif (1) Jakob Chychrun (2), Boone Jenner (1) · tip-in 1–2

3rd period

17:55 Jake Guentzel (1) EN Nikita Kucherov (1), John Carlson (1) · wrist 1–3

Three stars

Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL · G #88 · 0 GA, .952 SV%
Brandon Hagel TBL · L #38 · 0 G, 2 A
Emil Lilleberg TBL · D #78 · 0 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	08:35	WSH	Justin Sourdif	holding	2	Conor Geekie
1st	18:02	TBL	Ryan McDonagh	holding	2	Alex Ovechkin
2nd	02:43	WSH	Aliaksei Protas	tripping	2	J.J. Moser
2nd	13:54	TBL	Emil Lilleberg	fighting (major)	5	Vincent Desharnais
2nd	13:54	WSH	Vincent Desharnais	fighting (major)	5	Emil Lilleberg
2nd	14:56	TBL	Pontus Holmberg	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Jakob Chychrun
2nd	14:56	WSH	Jakob Chychrun	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Pontus Holmberg
3rd	00:32	TBL	Zemgus Girgensons	roughing	2	Tom Wilson
3rd	00:32	WSH	Tom Wilson	roughing	2	Zemgus Girgensons
3rd	08:57	TBL	Brayden Point	holding	2	Ryan Leonard
3rd	12:56	WSH	Martin Fehérváry	roughing	2	Ilya Mikheyev
3rd	17:55	WSH	Tom Wilson	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—

Boxscore

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Justin Sourdif #34	C	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	100.0	12:24
Boone Jenner #22	C	0	1	1	0	3	0	2	0	37.5	14:57
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	1	1	-1	2	0	1	2	0.0	27:11
Dylan Strome #17	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	0	41.7	18:02
Pierre-Luc Dubois #80	C	0	0	0	-2	1	2	0	0	25.0	18:34
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	13:34
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	0.0	15:21
Ilya Protas #62	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	50.0	09:55
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	17:53
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0.0	11:37
Jordan Kyrou #25	R	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0	0.0	14:45
Ryan Leonard #9	R	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0.0	14:10
Tom Wilson #43	R	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	12	0.0	17:49
Cole Hutson #44	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	21:03
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	2	0.0	18:11
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	14:22
Timothy Liljegren #27	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	3	0	0.0	17:11
Vincent Desharnais #73	D	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	5	0.0	15:25

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Charlie Lindgren #79	L	29	27	2	.931	24/26	3/3	57:36

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	2	3	+3	2	1	1	0	60.0	18:18
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	2	2	+2	6	0	0	0	100.0	22:07
Conor Geekie #94	C	1	0	1	0	2	3	0	0	66.7	09:10
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	13:47
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	1	1	+1	3	0	0	0	100.0	22:46
John Carlson #74	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:35
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	70.0	17:42
Brayden Point #21	C	0	0	0	+2	3	0	1	2	37.5	20:32
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	15:47
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	3	2	66.7	14:27
Jeffrey Viel #25	L	0	0	0	-1	1	8	1	0	0.0	07:34
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	0	0.0	13:57
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	100.0	15:25
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	5	0.0	10:30
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	+1	4	3	3	0	0.0	20:34
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	19:23
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0.0	15:52
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	4	0	0.0	13:34

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	21	20	1	.952	17/18	2/2	60:00

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 2026-10-24.