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WASHINGTON — The Lightning let one get away Monday night. And it might cost Tampa Bay a chance at the Stanley Cup.So now there will be a Game 7 to decide the Eastern Conference. Maybe this is how it should be. Maybe this is how it's supposed to be.Either way, it's how it WILL be.Game 7.Get ready, Tampa Bay, because it's coming. Wednesday night at Amalie Arena. One game to decide which team goes to the Stanley Cup final.

The Lightning and the Capitals. If you think you know who is going to win, you're crazy. No one knows what will happen because nothing in this series has made sense.

But there's no question which team has the momentum and it isn't the Lightning. If Tampa Bay doesn't get its act together and soon, you can forget a Stanley Cup. If we learned anything from Washington's season-saving 3-0 victory Monday night, it's that the Lightning had better raise its desperation level."We were no good," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "We didn't play with the near desperation that they did. Was it a fairly even game? There's no question."

Yeah, the score was close for most of the night. Then Cooper pointed out the number of hits in the game: Washington 39, Tampa Bay 19."Somebody was engaged, and somebody wasn't," Cooper said. "And that's a choice. You can spin this any way you That's true. On one hand, the Lightning has a Game 7 at home after overcoming a 2-0 deficit in the series. The fact that it still has a chance — and a good one seeing how it is at home — is the positive spin.Or …"Or you can say they blew a big opportunity to close this series out," Cooper said of his team.And that's the bad news.

The Lightning had a chance to wrap up this wild and intense series full of momentum shifts against the Capitals on Monday night in Washington. But the Caps responded with a gut-check performance that, frankly, few thought they had in them. A team known more for throwing up than showing up when the postseason gets serious, the Caps won one of the biggest games in franchise history.

They won it because they played better. And, according to the Lightning, wanted it more.

The Caps also have left the Lightning full of doubt. The Lightning look like a fragile team heading into its biggest game since it lost Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final two years ago.

It hasn't scored a goal in more than 99 minutes, going all the way back to Ryan Callahan's goal 33 seconds into the second period of Game 5. It had some decent looks in Game 6, but hardly any second chances and you never had the sense that Tampa Bay was really going to win Game 6. The best it could do was hang around and hope to catch a break that never came.

Now give the Caps credit. They played hard. They played well. Forward Devante Smith-Pelly said, "We played pretty much the perfect game."

But clearly, the Caps were on a mission that the Lightning wasn't on.

"They were the more desperate team," Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said. "They played extremely hard with their back against the wall. They played like it could be their last game and we played like it might be our last game or it might not be. The desperation level needs to be higher, obviously, if we expect to win the series."

You also have to wonder if the Lightning can rebound, not only emotionally from losing a Game 6, but physically. The Caps, led by captain Alex Ovechkin, were absolute beasts Monday night, throwing heavy checks all over the ice. It was by far the most physical game of the series with Washington doing most of the hitting.

On Monday night, the Washington Capitals defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning by a final score of 3-0 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final. Strong performances from the likes of Braden Holtby, T.J. Oshie, Nicklas Backstrom and Devante Smith-Pelly was the central avenue through which the Capitals snatched victory from the jaws of defeat so as to even up the third-round series.

Wednesday night’s contest promises to be perhaps the most exciting game of the 2017-18 campaign thus far, as both clubs prepare for a Game 7 showdown for the ages.

The Capitals shall look to ride a wave of momentum as they enter into yet another do-or-die situation. The team’s stars and its secondary scoring will be relied upon to match Tampa’s depth-ridden roster in a similar fashion to Game 6. Expect Barry Trotz’s men to instill a tight two-way presence, as the matchup has the potential to serve as the most important game of Alexander Ovechkin’s career.

For the Bolts, Wednesday entails a wide range of redemptive possibilities that can ultimately render the ghosts of Game 6 silent. Look for the team to come out flying, as scoring an early goal on Holtby will be crucial to ushering forth a much needed victory. Expect Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman, Ryan McDonagh and Andrei Vasilevskiy to play some of the most exciting hockey of their respective careers, as the players aim to hoist the Prince of Wales Trophy.