The Washington Capitals lost starting goaltender Logan Thompson to injury after he was crashed into by teammate Dylan Strome late in Game 3. Thompson reached for his head after the blow, but soon after, it became apparent he could not put weight on his left leg, needing assistance off the ice.

Charlie Lindgren, a former Canadiens goalie, finished the final 6:37 of regulation, allowing one goal on five shots faced in the 6-3 loss. Head coach Spencer Carbery did not share any information about Thompson’s injury after the game and provided nothing further after the team’s skate on Saturday afternoon.

“I don’t [have an update],” Carbery said. “I’ll get an update later on today from our training staff.”

Thompson did not participate in the optional practice, while other veterans like Strome and Alex Ovechkin did. Lindgren and reserve goalie Clay Stevenson manned the two nets.

Strome, who collided with Thompson and later helped him off the ice, told the Washington Post’s Bailey Johnson that he believes Thompson’s stumble as he tried to get up might have been just a “balance thing” versus an actual leg injury. Thompson had also appeared uncomfortable earlier in the game, flexing and stretching his neck after several saves.

Thompson had given up five goals on 35 shots when he was forced out of the crease in the third period. The 28-year-old netminder just recovered from an upper-body injury that forced him out of the final seven games of the regular season, returning just in time to start in all three games of the first-round series.

After struggling with consistency ahead of the playoffs, Thompson had arguably been the Capitals’ best player against Montreal. After the Game 3 loss, he is still sporting a 2.73 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage. Per MoneyPuck, he has saved 2.7 more goals than expected, which ranked fifth among playoff starters coming into Saturday’s games.

Montreal’s starting goalie, Sam Montembeault, also left the game with an injury and did not return. Per Sportsnet’s Eric Engels, Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis said Saturday that Montembeault was still being evaluated.

The Capitals will have little time to regroup before taking ice in the hostile Bell Centre cauldron again on Sunday night. Game 4 is set for a 6:30 pm puck drop, and then the two teams will have two days off before returning to Capital One Arena on Wednesday night.