For the first time this season, the Caps are winners in a shootout. Dylan Strome scored the only goal of the skills competition on Monday night at Capital One Arena and Logan Thompson shut down all three Ottawa attempts, enabling the Caps to come away with a 5-4 victory in the finale of a five-game homestand, Washington’s longest of the season.

Dylan Strome scored the winner in the third round of the shootout and Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and two assists as the host Washington Capitals snapped a season-worst three-game losing streak with a 5-4 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Monday.

WASHINGTON — The Washington Capitals will put a three-game losing streak behind them, as they take on the Ottawa Senators. Here's everything to know before puck drop at 6:30 p.m. at Capital One Arena. The lines will remain the same, and Logan Thompson will start.

Washington will stick with the same line combinations as they welcome the Flames, with Aliaksei Protas sticking with Alex Ovechkin and Dylan Strome ... All the while, Logan Thompson will get ...

After a gritty 5-4 shootout win over the Ottawa Senators on Monday, the Washington Capitals had an optional practice on Tuesday, and it was fairly well-attended.

Mitchell Chaffee and Gage Goncalves scored, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 20 of the 21 shots he faced behind a remarkable tight-checking team effort and the Tampa Bay Lightning won their eighth consecutive game by beating the Eastern Conference-leading Washington Capitals 3-1.

The last time the Washington Capitals faced the Calgary Flames on the road, coach Spencer Carbery thought they were "just okay." After scoring 15 goals in 24 hours in their return from the 4 Nations break,