For the first two periods of action at Verizon Center on Friday night, it was the Frans and Flash show, as the New York Islanders’ Frans Nielsen and the Washington Capitals’ Tomas Fleischmann matched each other goal-for-goal.

However, in the end, it was defenseman, Mark Streit, who stole the thunder, netting the game winner only 53 seconds into overtime to give the Islanders a 4-3 victory.

With former Bridgeport Sound Tiger, Kyle Okposo, serving a double minor sentence for high-sticking, Alexander Ovechkin’s power play goal gave the Caps a 1-0 lead 4:41 into the opening period.

Ovechkin’s blast from the point slid under the left pad of Islanders goalie, Dwayne Roloson, with former Bears, Mike Green and Keith Aucoin, collecting the assists.

While Aucoin knows that playing alongside Green, Ovechkin and company on the power play greatly increases his chances of making his stay in the NHL a permanent one, he also realizes that he has to produce when granted the opportunity.

“Any time that you get put out there on the power play with those guys, you have to put up some points,” said Aucoin after Friday night’s contest. “That’s the only way you are going to be able to stay on the unit, and stay up here. Every time I got out there on the power play, I just try to work hard and get the puck to them.”

Okposo redeemed himself at 10:37 of the opening frame when his wrist shot eluded Capitals goaltender, Jose Theodore, to knot the score at one. Brendan Witt notched the only assist on the Okposo’s tally, marking the former Caps defenseman’s first point of the campaign.

At 7:12 of the second period Nielsen converted a turnover by Green into a goal that gave the Islanders a 2-1 lead.

Less than two minutes after the Nielsen goal, Fleishmann tied the game at two after stuffing the puck into the cage moments after taking and winning his only faceoff of the encounter.

“Aucoin got kicked out of the faceoff. I like to take faceoffs because it’s a good battle between me and the other center, and that one went well for me,” recalls Fleischmann. “It was a mistake by their goalie behind the net and Clark and gave me the puck right away. I just tried to stuff it, and was able to eventually get it in.”

Fleischmann, who answers to the nickname “Flash”, set off the red light again when he gathered in a rebound of a Mike Green point shot and promptly found the back of the net to give the Caps a 3-2 lead at 16:43 of the second stanza.

“I saw the shot was coming from the point and I just went to the net. Luckily for me the puck just laid there for a minute and I was able to put in,” Fleischmann said.

Nielsen quickly knotted the score late in the period, when his wrist shot from the high slot eluded a tumbling Theodore at 17:50.

Streit, who served two penalties in the game and was in the penalty box when Fleischmann struck on the power play, ended the festivities when he beat Theodore from between the circles after gathering in a pretty pass from the number one pick in the 2009 NHL draft, John Tavares.

Although Flash and the Caps faithful went home disappointed after the setback, number 14 certainly reaped the benefits of his conditioning stint in Chocolatetown and credits the stay for being a vital part in being able to produce in the NHL so soon after returning.

“I was happy to be back there. It was fun and I enjoyed it a lot, I needed to play some games and get back in game shape.”