📸: j00lep from #crashers
On Tuesday night, the Washington Capitals defeated the Carolina Hurricanes in a game they had to win or else the comments on RMNB would be extra unbearable.
Notorious goal-scorer Brandon Duhaime scored his second goal in as many games, again assisted by the deft pley of Ethen Frenk. Dylan Strome took a pass from Ovechkin to make it 2-0 in the second period, but Nik Ehlers’s rebound goal brought the Canes within one goal with 20 minutes to go.
Jakob Chychrun did the unthinkable: turned a power play into a power-play goal, taking a rebound to make it 3-1. Alex Ovechking hit the empty net, and that was that.
Caps win!
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Ethen Frank, who deserves the respect of a correctly spelled name, has created 2 pretty goals in 2 games for number 22, Brandon Duhaime. That’s all of Duhaime’s scoring this season. Last game it was a quick read and pass from below the goal line. This time it was another good assessment, but from the front of the net, finding Duhaime eager for the layup.
Against a fellow excellent five-on-five team, the Caps were in complete control in the first period – 13 attempts to six. The Canes had the puck more in the back 40, but Strome’s and Chychrun’s goals were momentum-killers for the Canes.
We debated how to term the mass fight that happened in the second period. Melee, mayhem, brawl, line brawl, donnybrook, roustabout, rabblerouse, bric-à -brac, lorraine bracco, broccoli raab, rob thomas santana smooth, it’s a hot one, etc. In any case, a bunch of people punched each other and yet we were denied the title bout: goalie Freddie Anderson versus goalie Logan Thompson.
Anderson got hurt by Jordan Staal with about five minutes left in the third. The only good news there is that a Caps player wasn’t involved.
Jakob Chychrun‘s goal was his 100th. It also nullified his culpability on the Ehlers goal, which was kinda on him. Chychrun got called for a late cross-check that put his team in a vulnerable state. So a busy night for an interesting fellow.
Connor McMichael saved a goal in the third period, backstopping Logan Thompson’s bathing-suit area with his stick to deny the puck from crossing the red line.
Would of been nice if Nikolaj Ehlers was a Capital instead of a Hurricane. That was one of the storylines Chris tracks, and over the course of it I become radicalized, and then my heart is broken when the Caps don’t get the player. Same thing happened with PLD like two years ago before my heart was made whole.
I had a fun out-of-town scoreboard, but it’s too good to put as a bullet in the recap. Austen will make it its own thing.
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A badly needed win. Not just two standings points, but a statement that the Caps can beat a good team, and do it soundly in all aspects and in all game states.
An equally tough game awaits the Caps in Florida, against the Panthers, to wrap up this road trip.