{"id":209174,"date":"2025-10-13T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209174\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:12:09","slug":"lindgren-makes-35-saves-in-season-debut-capitals-shut-out-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209174\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindgren makes 35 saves in season debut, Capitals shut out Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindgren made his best save of the night nearly nine minutes before Beauvillier scored. He dove across the crease to rob Mika Zibanejad<\/a> with a glove save on a one-timer from the left circle off a 2-on-1 pass from Artemi Panarin<\/a> at 4:53 of the second.<\/p>\n

“Two really good hockey players coming down on a 2-on-1, it’s not easy,” Lindgren said. “Panarin made a nice play, a nice pass. Zibanejad got a lot on it. I felt I got a nice piece of it with my glove. I felt like just for a second I saw a little flash like going into the net. I don’t know what it was. But then I looked down at my glove and it was in my glove, so pretty happy about that.”<\/p>\n

Said Zibanejad: “I’m confident I can say I score eight out of 10, or nine out of 10 on that. He makes that save. It was a good save.”<\/p>\n

Lindgren also stopped Zibanejad’s one-timer from the slot during a Rangers’ power play at 16:05 of the second. The puck hit off the goalie and the right post before the Capitals cleared it out of harm’s way.<\/p>\n

“It hit off my oblique and hit off the post,” Lindgren said. “Thankfully it stayed out again.”<\/p>\n

That was the second of four saves Lindgren made on that penalty kill. The Capitals went back on the kill 24 seconds later and held the Rangers without a shot on goal to protect the one-goal lead going into the third period.<\/p>\n

Washington was just 2-for-5 on the PK in its first two games.<\/p>\n

“That was huge,” Carbery said. “Hopefully that gives our group a little bit of confidence there because it was a big moment in the game and to get out of that without giving one up was important.”<\/p>\n

In the third, Lindgren denied Panarin on a deflected shot off the rush, staying with the puck as it popped up off defenseman John Carlson<\/a> and went on goal at 14:16. He was square to Will Cuylle<\/a>‘s shot from the right circle with the Rangers skating 6-on-5 with 1:18 remaining.<\/p>\n

“He was our best player,” Beauvillier said. “If he wasn’t there, I don’t think we would have walked out of here with two points.”<\/p>\n

NOTES: Capitals forward Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> didn’t play the final 6:44 of the third period. Carbery said he left the game and was being evaluated. \u2026 Washington defenseman Declan Chisholm<\/a> had an assist in his 100th NHL game. It was his first game of the season. \u2026 Lindgren improved to 4-1-0 with two shutouts and a .957 save percentage in five regular-season games against the Rangers. \u2026 New York placed defenseman Carson Soucy<\/a> (upper body) on injured reserve before the game. Defenseman Matthew Robertson<\/a> had one shot on goal in 18:08 of ice time in his season debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindgren made his best save of the night nearly nine minutes before Beauvillier scored. He dove across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-209174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}