Injury added to insult in the Caps’ 6-3 loss to Montreal in Game 3: goaltender Logan Thompson left the game in the third period with an apparent lower-body injury.
Dylan Strome crashed into Thompson as Juraj Slafkovsky scored the Canadiens’ fifth goal with just under seven minutes remaining, and Thompson was bent backwards while in the splits. He had to be helped off the ice, unable to bear weight on his left leg.
LT had 30 saves and five goals allowed at that point. He was replaced by Charlie Lindgren, who allowed the Habs’ final goal and made four saves in 6:37 of ice time.
Thompson had missed the last seven games of the regular season with what was termed an upper-body injury – he had been hit high and in the mask with a puck late in the Caps’ loss in Carolina on April 2 – but returned for Game 1 and had 61 saves on 64 shots in the first two games.