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Washington Capitals 6–3 Tampa Bay Lightning: NHL regular season, 17 January 2000
Washington Capitals 6–3 Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1999–2000 NHL regular season.
17 January 2000 · Tampa
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The story
Washington Capitals visited Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL regular season on 17 January 2000. Washington Capitals won by 3 goals, with the final recorded as Washington Capitals 6, Tampa Bay Lightning 3.
How it unfolded
The published final is recorded as a regulation result in the dated schedule. This fixture is treated as one completed game within the league programme, not as a duplicate of the wider daily slate.
The wider picture
The final was checked against the NHL’s official dated schedule and an independent daily score archive. This source-checked report confines its statistical claims to the confirmed teams, date, score and outcome, avoiding unsupported retrospective player or period detail.
Period by period
| Final | Washington Capitals | Tampa Bay Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Final | 6 | 3 |
Sources
Check the original record.
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