Back to .500 with a chance to pull within at least 4 points in the division next week.
TB-5
WAS-2
Johan Holmqvist [7] stopped 23 of 25 shots faced in the win.
First Period
NO SCORING
Second Period
Tampa Bay 12:30, Filip Kuba [8] 2 (power play) (Michel Ouellet [9], Vincent Lecavalier [10])
Washington 18:20, Alexander Ovechkin 11 (Mike Green, Tom Poti)
Third Period
Tampa Bay 1:29, Vaclav Prospal [11] 11 (Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis [12])
Tampa Bay 2:27, Martin St. Louis 5 (Vaclav Prospal, Brad Lukowich)
Tampa Bay 12:22, Ryan Craig [13] 1 (power play) (Vaclav Prospal, Chris Gratton [14])
Washington 15:26, Tomas Fleischmann 4 (Tom Poti, Viktor Kozlov)
Tampa Bay 19:39, Paul Ranger [15] 2 (empty net) (Brad Richards [16])
Ryan Craig [13] made his return tonight and scored a power play goal. That means, hopefully, a decision on Craig MacDonald or Mathieu Darche [17] being sent down to Norfolk will be forthcoming soon.
Mike Lundin [18] had 3 shots in 12:40.
Box score [19] and extended statistics [20] from NHL.com.