The Washington Capitals beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-0 Friday night at the Verizon Center.
What comes after “depleted”? Because we’re running out of words to describe what’s left of the Lightning roster in the wake of an absurd and ongoing rash of injuries.
Already without Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov, Ondrej Palat, Vladislav Namestnikov, Ryan Callahan, Ben Bishop and Cedric Paquette, games remain to be played and players continue to get hurt. Three more players were dinged up in to as-yet-to-be-fully-ascertained degrees in tonight’s second game of a back-to-back (following last night’s win over St. Louis in Tampa).