The Bolts dropped their regular season finale to the Caps by a score of 6-3 and failed to sweep the season series against the team that knocked them out of last year’s Eastern Conference Finals. It seemed like this would have been a perfect game for the Bolts to come back refreshed and motivated, but it looked almost like the exact opposite.
Tampa Bay was brutally outshot for the first two periods of the game by a count of 28-14, failing to even record a single shot on net more than six minutes into the game.