TAMPA, Florida - Sean Bergenheim scored two goals and Dwayne Roloson stopped 33 shots as the Tampa Bay Lightning outbreak has completed a sweep of the series of the seeded Washington Capitals in height with a 5-3 victory in game 4 on Wednesday night.
Playing on consecutive nights for the first time this postseason, the lightning extended their series of victories for seven games and advanced to the final of the Conference is for the first time since their season of the 2004 Stanley Cup Championship.
For Alex Ovechkin and the capitals, it is still another bitter disappointment for playoffs.
Rookie Michal Neuvirth stopped 32 shots for Washington, but Bergenheim scored twice in eight minutes in the second period to build a 3-1 lead which induces songs of "sweep, sweep, sweep," a room fills of 20,835.
The big three of Martin St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier and Steven Stamkos lightning have elevated their games, but has therefore Bergenheim, who was a leader of the team of seven goals through two rounds. Sixth objective St. Louis' of playoffs, with 3: 08 remaining, finished marking of Tampa Bay.
Ryan Malone and Marc - André Bergeron added goals for the lightning, who have not lost since the fall in a hole of 3-1 against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round.
Marco Sturm, John Erskine and John Carlson scored for the capitals.
The lightning won the first two games in Washington, then pushed the capitals on elimination by winning game 3 in Tampa Tuesday evening.
They expected the hardest game of series Wednesday, calling the capitals a proud team which should not be taken lightly. Washington found it, the first three games could have gone with Ovechkin insisting after game 3 that the series was far from over and that he expected his team to come back and win.
Malone marked with Ovechkin in the criminalization of recharge area, giving Tampa Bay an advance 1 - 0 at 12: 37 of the first period. The lightning have not lost a postseason game in which they were registered first, however shown once Washington more enduring after falling at the start.
The capitals he linked to the end of the first, marking the second time in only 17 of series power play opportunities. Jason Arnott and Ovechkin attended the purpose of Sturm, but Washington was unable to continue the momentum for a second period in which it was outshot 17-10.
Sixth and seventh goals of the playoffs Bergenheim put the lightning up 3-1. Caps tightening with goal without help Erskine at 13: 40 of the second, but Roloson responded to every challenge after that.
Game notes
The lightning have won eight consecutive playoff games against the capitals, dating from the first round in 2003. ... Washington D Mike Green, who left in the third period Tuesday night with what the capitals described as a lower body injury, did not play in game 4. ... Tampa Bay LW Simon won and D Pavel Kubina sitting for the third consecutive game because of injuries was not disclosed, the top of the body. They are on the day the day. ... St. Louis, Lecavalier and Kubina are the only players remaining on the list of Stanley Cup champion team lightning.
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