The Washington Capitals squeaked out a win over the Tampa Bay Lightning, 5 to 4, on March 4, 2010.

Final

Lightning

26-26-11

4

Capitals

43-13-8

5

Team

TBL

WSH

1

2

1

2

3

2

Total

4

5

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

TBL

WSH

Eric Fehr (EV) unassisted

0

1

Steve Downie (PP) assisted by Kurtis Foster and Martin St. Louis

1

2nd period

TBL

WSH

Mike Knuble (EV) assisted by Brooks Laich and Brendan Morrison

1

2

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

1

3

Vincent Lecavalier (PP) assisted by Martin St. Louis and Kurtis Foster

2

3

3rd period

TBL

WSH

Scott Walker (EV) assisted by Mike Green and Boyd Gordon

2

4

Vincent Lecavalier (EV) assisted by Teddy Purcell and Andrej Meszaros

3

4

Steven Stamkos (EV) assisted by Mattias Ohlund and Martin St. Louis

4

Scott Walker (EV) assisted by Mike Green and Jason Chimera

4

5

Lightning

Capitals

Goals

4

5

Shots

29

34

Penalty Minutes

8

12

Power-Play Goals

2

0

Power-Play Opportunities

5

3

Faceoff Wins

28

33

Hits

19

20

Giveaways

10

11

Takeaways

4

10

Lightning

Capitals

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Mike Smith (L)	1	34	5	29	.853	59:33

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Steve Downie	1	0	0	0	2	18:42	3	1	2	0
Todd Fedoruk	0	0	0	0	0	5:09	1	0	0	0
Kurtis Foster	0	2	-1	2	3	22:31	0	1	1	0
Victor Hedman	0	0	-2	2	0	19:46	0	2	0	0
Zenon Konopka	0	0	-1	0	0	5:20	1	1	0	0
Vincent Lecavalier	2	0	0	0	6	21:51	0	0	1	1
Mike Lundin	0	0	-1	0	0	23:19	0	7	0	0
Ryan Malone	0	0	-2	0	0	19:09	0	1	0	0
Andrej Meszaros	0	1	0	0	2	19:42	1	4	2	0
Mattias Ohlund	0	1	0	0	0	20:45	3	0	1	0
Mark Parrish	0	0	-1	2	0	15:23	0	3	0	0
Teddy Purcell	0	1	-2	0	2	14:44	0	2	0	0
Matt Smaby	0	0	-2	0	1	7:32	4	1	0	0
Martin St. Louis	0	3	0	0	3	21:35	0	0	1	0
Steven Stamkos	1	0	-1	2	6	23:51	3	0	0	0
Alex Tanguay	0	0	-1	0	1	10:41	1	0	2	0
Nate Thompson	0	0	-1	0	3	14:21	0	0	0	2
Stephane Veilleux	0	0	0	0	0	9:54	2	0	0	1

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Semyon Varlamov (W)	1	29	4	25	.862	60:00

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Nicklas Backstrom	0	1	+1	2	0	17:23	0	3	1	0
Eric Belanger	0	0	+1	0	2	14:50	0	1	0	0
John Carlson	0	0	+1	0	1	14:46	0	4	2	1
Jason Chimera	0	1	+1	0	1	9:04	2	0	0	0
Joe Corvo	0	0	0	0	1	20:19	1	3	0	0
Eric Fehr	1	0	+1	0	2	11:49	3	0	0	1
Tomas Fleischmann	0	0	+1	0	3	15:08	0	0	0	1
Boyd Gordon	0	1	+1	0	2	13:22	1	0	0	0
Mike Green	0	2	+2	2	6	23:51	1	0	0	0
Mike Knuble	2	0	+1	2	3	15:43	2	1	1	0
Brooks Laich	0	1	+1	2	4	17:50	1	0	0	0
Brendan Morrison	0	1	0	0	0	14:02	0	3	2	1
Shaone Morrisonn	0	0	+2	0	0	16:38	5	2	1	0
Alex Ovechkin	0	1	0	0	3	18:36	1	2	1	1
Tom Poti	0	0	-1	2	0	21:18	0	1	2	1
Jeff Schultz	0	0	+2	2	1	20:13	0	1	1	0
Alexander Semin	0	0	-1	0	2	19:00	0	1	0	4
Scott Walker	2	0	+2	0	3	7:33	3	0	0	0