Capitals discharge Lightning with a show of power

Angelidis, 30, has skated in 15 games with the Crunch this season, recording a goal and four points with 24 penalty minutes.

John Tavares scored a tiebreaking power-play goal in the third period, and the New York Islanders beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Saturday night. Stamkos was awarded a penalty shot on the play. Tampa Bay also came up empty on a power play late in the period.

ABOUT THE ISLANDERS (11-8-4): Strome, the fifth overall pick in 2011, started the comeback for NY 5 1/2 minutes into the third period and Josh Bailey tied it three minutes later. After going into the 3rd period up 3-0 the Washington power play unit refused to show mercy as T.J. Oshie would score yet another man-up goal for Washington a little over 5 minutes into the period.

The steady defensemen scored in the second period and assisted on Alex Killorn’s first-period marker.

Goaltender Braden Holtby made 32 saves.

Ovechkin had eight shot attempts in the first period; the Lightning had 10.

When Jason Chimera was inserted on the power play two weeks ago, he couldn’t remember the last power-play goal he had before this season.

The Lightning ended the shutout midway through the third, with Brian Boyle scoring after a spectacular behind-the-back pass from Ryan Callahan. “We really didn’t give them any momentum… we drew penalties because of our pressure on them”. Washington went 3-for-4 on the power play; the Lightning was 0-for-2.

With just seconds remaining in the power play, center Evgeny Kuznetsov sent a slap pass to Chimera in the slot and he redirected it home for his sixth goal of the season.

“You work on stuff in practice, you work on stuff in games, it’s just one of those things that you do (with) repetition”, Chimera said.

“We travel here on Thanksgiving”.

In just his second game back with the team since missing three games with an upper body injury, Tyler Johnson was injured again.

NOTES: Washington’s Barry Trotz coached his 1,300th National Hockey League game…. Capitals RW Chris Brown was scratched despite re-joining the team from AHL Hershey on Thursday.

NEXT GAME: Saturday night in Toronto against the Maple Leafs at 67 p.m.