NHL Recaps: Thursday, May 17, 2018

1 game: what happened that matters for your fantasy team, built from the play-by-play and shift charts.

Game recaps

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Tampa Bay Lightning

Washington Capitals

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Washington Capitals 4–2

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Washington Capitals 4–2 at WSH. Brayden Point (TBL) led the scoring with 1G 1A. TBL's first power-play unit (Stamkos, Hedman, Kucherov, Miller and Point) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:22 together.

•Brayden Point had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 16:24.
•TBL's first power-play unit (Stamkos, Hedman, Kucherov, Miller and Point) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:22 together.
•New look for WSH: Backstrom–Connolly–Stephenson skated 10:17 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
Brayden Point TBL	at WSH	1	1	2	2	0	1	16:24	—
Ryan Callahan TBL	at WSH	0	0	0	1	6	2	14:37	—

Line changes

New look for WSH: Backstrom–Connolly–Stephenson skated 10:17 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for WSH: Beagle–Smith-Pelly–Burakovsky skated 5:13 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (16.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL	at WSH	W	38	2	.947
Braden Holtby WSH	vs TBL	L	19	3	.842

Next up: tonight's starting goalies, today's line combinations and today's games. Takeaways are generated from the numbers with fixed rules; nothing is written by a language model.