WASHINGTON—The Capitals returned to Washington earlier this week with a 2-0 lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference finals, home-ice advantage and momentum. The two victories came despite Tampa Bay being outshot by 76-43 over the two games. “Clearly, we’ve needed it, especially in those first couple games we weren’t scoring 5-on-5 at all — it was all power play,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. Washington centre Lars Eller gave the Tampa Bay power play some help in the past two games. Tampa Bay got some more special teams help from its penalty killing, a weakness during the regular season.

Source: thestar May 18, 2018 23:26 UTC