{"id":499890,"date":"2026-02-26T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499890\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:57:07","slug":"capitals-score-twice-late-in-3rd-defeat-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499890\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals score twice late in 3rd, defeat Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declan Chisholm passed across the slot to van Riemsdyk, who was going to the net and poked the puck over Dan Vladar to end a 38-game goal drought.<\/p>\n<p>Aliaksei Protas had a goal and an assist, and Rasmus Sandin scored his first goal in 40 games for the Capitals (30-23-7), who have won five of six. Logan Thompson made 23 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Cates scored for the Flyers (25-21-11) who have lost six of seven. Vladar made 26 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Sandin gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead at 13:52 of the second period. Jakob Chychrun passed to Hendrix Lapierre below the right circle. Lapierre passed across the slot to Sandin cutting through the left circle and he beat Vladar with a wrist shot from just inside the circle.<\/p>\n<p>Cates tied the score 1-1 at 29 seconds of the third period when he tipped Travis Sanheim\u2019s point shot past Thompson from in front after Protas turned the puck over in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson made a left pad save to rob Matvei Michkov\u2019s at the right post at 9:55.<\/p>\n<p>Protas scored a short-handed goal into an empty net during 6-on-4 play at 19:34 for the 3-1 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Declan Chisholm passed across the slot to van Riemsdyk, who was going to the net and poked the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-499890","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\/499890","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=499890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}