Here's something you don't see every day, a package of game notes being thrown into the stands from the Lightning's press box suite at an opponent's stadium. But that's what happened early in the third period of Friday's game with the Capitals.

It was2:30 into the period when a cross-checking penalty on Tampa Bay's Evgeny Artyukhin nullified Jeff Halpern's goal that would have tied the score 3-3. All of a sudden the notes came flying out of the suite and into the stands. Fans threw them back.

GM Brian Lawton, who was in the suite with Lightning owner Oren Koules, said he was not responding to the game but to fans who threw something into the open-air suite first. Either way, there were smiles all around as Lawton and the fans laughed the whole thing off.

As for Lightning goalie Mike McKenna, you might recall he was one of those who criticized Washington star Alex Ovechkin for his celebration last week at the St. Pete Times Forum after his 50th goal.

Ovechkinwas in the hallway leading to the Lightning locker room after Friday's game talking to his buddy Artyukhin.  McKenna saw him and approached to clear the air about the criticism. McKenna said the emotions of the moment got the best of him.

"I wanted to tell him there was nothing to it," McKenna said."It's water under the bridge."