The Washington Capitals handily beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 7 to 4, on January 1, 2009.

Final

Lightning

10-17-10

4

Capitals

25-11-3

7

Team

TBL

WSH

1

0

3

2

3

1

3

1

3

Total

4

7

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

TBL

WSH

Sean Collins (EV) assisted by Alex Ovechkin and Shaone Morrisonn

0

1

David Steckel (EV) assisted by Matt Bradley and Milan Jurcina

0

2

Mike Green (EV) assisted by Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom

0

3

2nd period

TBL

WSH

Vincent Lecavalier (EV) assisted by Vinny Prospal and Martin St. Louis

1

3

Ryan Malone (EV) assisted by Jeff Halpern

2

3

Matt Bradley (EV) assisted by Boyd Gordon

2

4

Vincent Lecavalier (EV) assisted by Vinny Prospal and Martin St. Louis

3

4

3rd period

TBL

WSH

Boyd Gordon (EV) unassisted

3

5

Mark Recchi (EV) assisted by Martin St. Louis and Andrej Meszaros

4

5

Chris Clark (EV) assisted by Michael Nylander and Mike Green

4

6

Alex Ovechkin (EV) assisted by Nicklas Backstrom

4

7

Lightning

Capitals

Goals

4

7

Shots

27

35

Penalty Minutes

11

9

Power-Play Goals

0

Power-Play Opportunities

2

3

Faceoff Wins

31

28

Hits

28

17

Giveaways

13

22

Takeaways

5

6

Lightning

Capitals

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Mike Smith (L)	1	35	7	28	.800	60:00

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Evgeny Artyukhin	0	0	-1	0	1	14:59	4	0	0	0
Steve Eminger	0	0	-2	0	0	23:51	1	2	0	0
Adam Hall	0	0	0	5	2	8:32	2	1	0	0
Jeff Halpern	0	1	-1	0	2	16:25	3	2	0	0
Jamie Heward	0	0	+1	0	0	10:52	0	0	0	0
Jussi Jokinen	0	0	0	0	2	13:59	1	2	1	1
Vincent Lecavalier	2	0	-1	0	5	18:47	2	0	1	2
Marek Malik	0	0	-1	0	0	21:42	1	3	1	0
Ryan Malone	1	0	0	0	2	15:48	2	0	0	0
Andrej Meszaros	0	1	-2	0	0	24:16	2	3	3	0
Vladimir Mihalik	0	0	0	0	1	13:22	1	2	1	0
Matt Pettinger	0	0	0	0	1	10:43	0	1	1	0
Vinny Prospal	0	2	-1	2	2	18:33	1	1	0	0
Mark Recchi	1	0	-2	0	1	14:44	0	0	1	1
Matt Smaby	0	0	-2	2	1	21:22	6	2	2	0
Martin St. Louis	0	3	-1	0	2	18:32	0	0	1	1
Steven Stamkos	0	0	-1	0	3	12:20	1	0	0	0
Paul Szczechura	0	0	-1	0	2	15:13	1	3	0	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Brent Johnson (W)	1	27	4	23	.852	60:00

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Karl Alzner	0	0	+1	0	1	20:52	0	2	3	1
Nicklas Backstrom	0	2	+1	0	2	19:27	2	1	1	1
Chris Bourque	0	0	0	0	2	10:45	0	0	1	0
Matt Bradley	1	1	+3	0	2	16:21	2	0	2	0
Chris Clark	1	0	+1	5	3	11:30	1	2	0	0
Sean Collins	1	0	0	0	1	14:18	1	1	0	0
Eric Fehr	0	0	-1	0	2	11:17	0	1	0	1
Alexandre Giroux	0	0	+3	0	2	9:36	1	1	1	0
Boyd Gordon	1	1	+2	2	1	11:36	0	1	0	1
Mike Green	1	1	+2	0	2	24:30	0	1	5	0
Milan Jurcina	0	1	+1	0	2	19:28	0	2	1	0
Viktor Kozlov	0	0	+1	0	1	17:41	1	1	1	0
Brooks Laich	0	0	-1	0	4	20:35	2	0	2	0
Shaone Morrisonn	0	1	0	0	0	14:54	2	1	0	0
Michael Nylander	0	1	0	0	2	17:08	0	0	0	0
Alex Ovechkin	1	2	0	2	4	22:26	3	2	1	1
Jeff Schultz	0	0	+2	0	2	20:53	1	2	1	1
David Steckel	1	0	0	0	2	12:43	1	0	0	0