In Washington, DC, two third period goals from the Capitals erased a 3-1 deficit and sent their game with the Tampa Bay Lightning to extra time.
Dmitry Orlov capped the rally when he scored with 1:57 remaining in the extra session for a 4-3 win.
“I looked for the pass first,” Orlov said. “I saw [Tom Wilson] going for the far post. [I decided to] shoot. I think Vasilevskiy may have been cheating a little bit on that shot, and that is why I think he gave up a goal to me.”
Braden Holtby made 27 saves to get the win.
Brayden Point, Mikhail Sergachev and Alex Killorn struck for the Lightning who had a 3-1 lead heading to the third period.
“It’s just self-inflicted wounds,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “We had our chances. But you can’t sit here and say, ‘We had really good chances and didn’t bury them.’ It’s just you’ve got to do a better job of keeping the puck out of the net, and in the third we didn’t.”
Evgeny Kuznetsov scored for the Caps to keep it close at 3-1.
“Teams are playing tight on [Steven Stamkos],” Point said of the forward, who returned after missing three games with a lower-body injury. “He’s been hot. They respect him a lot, and sometimes that leaves me open, and it was a great pass by [Kucherov].”
Jakub Vrana and Alex Ovechkin scored in the third period to get the teams even.
“Managing the puck and playing their zone, that was the first step,” Vrana said. “That is what we did. We created a lot of chances, plus we got on board on the [power play] too, which was important.”
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Andrei Vasilevskiy made 31 saves in the loss.
“I thought we were playing good,” Point said. “We had a two-goal lead going into the third, we were playing it safe and they score one early. They got some momentum, they got their legs back it seemed.”
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