The Tampa Bay Lightning and Washington Capitals are coming off incredibly emotional victories as they meet for the final time in the regular season Saturday night in the nation's capital.

The Eastern Conference foes would probably like for their respective Thursday night games to have just kept going, though they went about winning in different ways.

In its lone road contest during an eight-game stretch, Washington went to Quebec and simply obliterated the Montreal Canadiens 8-4, with seven goals over the final 40 minutes.

Alex Ovechkin (10 goals, 10 assists) and Ethen Frank each had four-point outings in the Capitals' third straight win, while Dylan Strome added three assists.

The 28-year-old Strome kept adding during the game as wife, Tayler, gave birth to their third daughter ahead

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