NHL Recaps: Monday, May 21, 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

Washington Capitals beat Tampa Bay Lightning 3–0

Washington Capitals beat Tampa Bay Lightning 3–0 at home. T.J. Oshie (WSH) led the scoring with 2G 0A. WSH's first power-play unit (Ovechkin, Oshie, Backstrom, Carlson and Kuznetsov) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 1:23 together.

•T.J. Oshie had two goals (2 points) on 5 shots in 20:44.
•Nicklas Backstrom had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 18:22.
•WSH's first power-play unit (Ovechkin, Oshie, Backstrom, Carlson and Kuznetsov) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 1:23 together.

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

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
T.J. Oshie WSH	vs TBL	2	0	2	5	2	1	20:44	—
Nicklas Backstrom WSH	vs TBL	0	2	2	1	4	0	18:22	—

Line changes

New look for WSH: Oshie–Backstrom–Vrana skated 13:39 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (74.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for WSH: Beagle–Smith-Pelly–Stephenson skated 7:48 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (12.5% 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	L	33	2	.939
Braden Holtby WSH	vs TBL	W	24	0	.1000

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.