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December 15,2007  (Saturday) in Tampa,Florida - St. Pete Times Forum	Goals/Period 1 2 3 Tot WAS 1 1 1 3 TB 1 1 0 2	Shots 1 2 3 Tot WAS 10 12 10 32 TB 11 7 7 25	PowerPlay PP Game PP Season PK Season WAS 1 / 6 23 / 144 (16.0%) 126 / 152 (82.9%) TB 0 / 4 28 / 138 (20.3%) 110 / 137 (80.3%)
Start: 7:30pm Attendance: 18,367 Referees: Paul Devorski, Tom Kowal Officials: Mike Cvik, Pat Dapuzzo	Washington Capitals Game #33 13-19-1 27 Pts Prev Game vs BUF Next Game at DET Tampa Bay Lightning Game #33 14-16-3 31 Pts Prev Game at CGY Next Game vs ATL Three Stars: (1) Brian Pothier  (WAS)  (2) Vincent Lecavalier (TB)  (3) Tomas Fleischmann (WAS)

Goals 1st Period 1. TB Paul Ranger    [6]  [c11]   ( Vincent Lecavalier [29] ) 4:28 2. WAS Tomas Fleischmann    [5]  [c9]   ( Michael Nylander [20],  Alexander Semin [4] ) 14:26 2nd Period 3. WAS Dave Steckel    [2]  [c2]   ( Brian Pothier [9] ) 0:08 4. TB Vincent Lecavalier    [22]  [c255]   ( Vaclav Prospal [18] ) 5:50 3rd Period 5. WAS Brian Pothier    [3]  [c18]   (Powerplay)   (GW)   ( Matt Pettinger [3],  Tomas Fleischmann [5] ) 5:06 Goalies Goalie Career Team Decision Min GA Shots Saves Record sGAA Brent Johnson Career WAS W 60 2 25 23 3-4-1 2.78 Johan Holmqvist Career TB L 59 3 32 29 13-11-3 2.81

Penalties 1st Period 1. WAS Tomas Fleischmann [1] Slashing 2 5:03 2. TB Martin St. Louis [3] Tripping 2 6:16 3. TB Mathieu Darche [2] Goalie Interference 2 6:48 4. WAS Shaone Morrisonn [2] Slashing 2 10:49 2nd Period 5. WAS Alexander Semin [1] Boarding 2 10:23 6. TB Filip Kuba [2] High Sticking 4 13:20 3rd Period 7. TB Shane O'Brien [2] High Sticking 2 3:23 8. WAS Alexander Ovechkin [2] Tripping 2 12:05

Faceoffs
Washington Capitals   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Dave Steckel 10 12 45.5% 234 210 52.7% Michael Nylander 6 4 60.0% 187 187 50.0% Brooks Laich 3 5 37.5% 68 78 46.6% Nicklas Backstrom 1 3 25.0% 87 126 40.8% Viktor Kozlov 2 1 66.7% 139 147 48.6%   22 25 46.8% 915 927 49.7%	Tampa Bay Lightning   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Vincent Lecavalier 11 8 57.9% 316 364 46.5% Brad Richards 6 11 35.3% 291 330 46.9% Andreas Karlsson 3 1 75.0% 38 44 46.3% Craig MacDonald 1 2 33.3% 31 34 47.7% Jason Ward 2 0 100.0% 12 16 42.9% Mathieu Darche 1 0 100.0% 4 3 57.1% Vaclav Prospal 1 0 100.0% 53 36 59.6%   25 22 53.2% 937 984 48.8%

Washington Capitals Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 2 Brian Pothier D 286 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 0 16:07 1:17 2:40 3 Tom Poti D 621 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 22:17 1:31 4:28 8 Alexander Ovechkin LW 196 0 0 0 -2 2 7 0 1 21:02 6:23 0:01 10 Matt Bradley RW 362 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 11:21 0:04 0:00 18 Matt Pettinger LW 310 0 1 1 -2 0 0 0 2 17:02 1:46 3:04 19 Nicklas Backstrom C 33 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 0 19:54 5:54 0:00 21 Brooks Laich C 184 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 14:44 0:54 2:53 23 Milan Jurcina D 149 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 16:18 0:00 1:24 25 Viktor Kozlov C-LW 782 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 13:09 1:03 0:00 26 Shaone Morrisonn D 235 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 4 21:34 0:04 3:09 28 Alexander Semin LW 145 0 1 1 1 2 4 1 0 12:43 4:19 0:00 39 Dave Steckel LW 45 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 16:45 0:24 4:20 43 Tomas Fleischmann C-LW 73 1 1 2 1 2 2 0 1 11:49 2:05 0:00 52 Mike Green C 57 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 1 21:58 6:08 0:00 53 Quintin Laing LW 11 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 15:11 0:04 4:09 55 Jeff Schultz D 64 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 15:01 0:00 2:45 87 Donald Brashear LW 879 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 9:20 0:00 0:00 92 Michael Nylander C 837 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 0 15:46 6:29 0:00   6113 3 5 8 0 8 32 11 20

Tampa Bay Lightning Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 3 Doug Janik D 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:55 0:00 1:06 4 Vincent Lecavalier C 662 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 3 24:54 5:47 2:48 16 Jason Ward RW 288 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 14:07 1:40 2:33 17 Jan Hlavac LW 389 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:12 0:56 0:00 19 Brad Richards C 524 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 28:39 7:04 3:46 20 Vaclav Prospal C 745 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 3 22:31 4:18 0:00 21 Mathieu Darche LW 54 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 2 16:28 1:24 0:00 24 Andreas Karlsson C 224 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 0 16:29 1:26 0:39 26 Martin St. Louis RW 559 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 27:04 6:08 3:27 29 Craig MacDonald C-LW 177 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:34 0:00 0:47 36 Andre Roy RW 441 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 7:23 0:00 0:00 37 Brad Lukowich D 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 21:24 0:09 4:15 39 Mike Lundin D 33 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 0 11:39 0:00 0:20 49 Blair Jones C 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:09 0:00 0:00 54 Paul Ranger D 180 1 0 1 1 0 2 3 2 24:12 1:41 5:14 55 Shane O'Brien D 113 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 3 20:28 0:00 2:27 71 Filip Kuba D 488 0 0 0 1 4 2 1 2 24:35 5:32 2:06 74 Nick Tarnasky C 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4:52 0:00 0:00   5896 2 2 4 0 10 25 12 34

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