Special teams again was an issue for Montreal on Wednesday. Although Suzuki scored a 6-on-4 goal with 1:39 remaining to bring the Canadiens within 5-4, their power play, which is now 3-for-23 (13 percent), also gave up a short-handed goal to Tuch on a 2-on-1 that gave the Capitals 3-2 lead at 6:16 of the second period.<\/p>\n
And their penalty kill allowed, essentially, two power-play goals in the first period with Kyrou tying the score at 1-1 at 7:56, two seconds after a man-advantage expired, and Ivan Miroshnichenko<\/a>\u00a0scoring when his pass deflected in off Anderson to tie it at 2-2 at 19:34.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought we played a good road game tonight,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cObviously, tough couple of bounces, but overall, we\u2019re still trying to work on things — the little details in our game that are going to allow us to, you know, come out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n Washington has similarly been dealing with health issues with forward Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a>\u00a0(illness) and defensemen Matt Roy<\/a> (lower body) and Rasmus Sandin<\/a>\u00a0(ACL surgery) out.\u00a0<\/p>\n These past four games without Dubois have provided another reminder of his importance as the Capitals top-line center who is usually matched against opponent\u2019s top lines. Dubois being limited to 29 games last season because of injuries played a significant role in them missing the playoffs.<\/p>\n A reshaped top line with Tuch and Kyrou playing with Dylan Strome<\/a>\u00a0proved pivotal in the victory Wednesday. It also helped that Holl scored for the second straight game after being called up Monday to try to help fill the void while Roy is out.<\/p>\n Holl\u2019s floating wrist shot from the right point sailed past Alex Ovechkin<\/a>\u2019s deflection attempt and Ilya Protas<\/a>\u2019 screen before going in off Dobes\u2019 left arm to snap a 3-3 tie at 12:29 of the third period. Tuch followed by scoring his second of the night from the slot to make it 5-3 at 17:05.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought in the third period we really dialed it in,\u201d Kyrou said. \u201cWe all made the simple plays, and each line was just going out there and doing their job and that\u2019s how we won the game.\u201d<\/p>\n The key for the Capitals now is to do it again when they host the New Jersey Devils for the second game of this five-game homestand on Saturday (1 p.m. ET; MNMT, MSGSN, NHLN, SNP, SNO, SNE).<\/p>\n \u201cIf we’re going to be a good team in this league and a team that competes with the best teams in the League, we’re going to have to find a way to make sure that consistently our game looks like that,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cHome, road, guys out with injury, it doesn’t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Special teams again was an issue for Montreal on Wednesday. Although Suzuki scored a 6-on-4 goal with 1:39…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-933620","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\/933620","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=933620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}