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Tampa Bay Lightning star Brayden Point bizarrely scored the fifth hat trick of his NHL career during his team’s 5-4 loss to the Washington Capitals on Thursday.

Point got his third goal of the game at Amalie Arena when Capitals goalie Charlie Lindgren tried to play the puck behind him but put it in his own net. The mistake didn’t prove costly, however, as Tom Wilson put the Caps ahead with a power-play goal late in the third period.

“I was chuckling to myself a little bit,” Lindgren told reporters after the game. “It was obviously the worst performance I’ve probably ever done on ice…I don’t know what I was thinking. The boys picked me up and I have a lot of respect for those boys.”

Lindgren then played a crucial role in the Caps’ victory by making every save after his blunder midway through the third frame, finishing with 25 saves in total.

“Mistakes happen in the game,” Point said. “He threw it in a little bit, but he made some great saves down the stretch.”

Tampa Bay had led for much of the game behind Point’s early goals and one from Michael Eyssimont, but Andrew Mangiapane, Aliaksei Protas and Dylan Strome all scored for the Capitals.

With the score tied at 3-3, Point’s hat trick gave the Lightning the lead before John Carlson and Wilson put the Capitals ahead. They move to 15-6-1 this season, while the Lightning are 11-8-2.

“I thought tonight that both teams probably deserved a point … everything was pretty much even,” Tampa Bay head coach Jon Cooper, coaching his 900th NHL game, told reporters afterward.