More Info<\/a><\/p>\nThe Blue Jackets definitely started and finished the period better than the Capitals. I think the Caps fought back in the middle part of the frame, but they got caught way too many times on odd-man breaks. Columbus ended the first up 23-16 in five-on-five shot attempts, while scoring chances were deadlocked at 11 apiece. Blistering start.
\nTrevor van Riemsdyk took a puck to the face early on and had to go right back into the team\u2019s locker room. He did end up returning with a noticeable cut to his chin, but played just 2:03 of the opening frame.
\nNic Dowd can\u2019t take that penalty at the end of the first period. He\u2019s in the offensive zone with five seconds left and is never getting to that puck, even if he strips Provorov. Can\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
The second period was a complete slog compared to the first as both teams slowed things way down. The Capitals went without a shot attempt for over six minutes and just could not string two passes together. They eventually got things together at the end of the frame with a good shift from Hendrix Lapierre, Connor McMichael, and Tom Wilson.
\nJohn Carlson scored to extend his point streak to five games, and he now has six points (2g, 4a) in eight games this season. He\u2019s still got it. Get to those extension talks.
\nThe Capitals had a power play in the second that I think was their worst of the season. They didn\u2019t get set up in the zone a single time. I know it\u2019s been converting recently, but I don\u2019t like the two defenders on one unit thing. Would much prefer some more speed to help them with zone entries because Carlson, Alex Ovechkin, and Dylan Strome aren\u2019t exactly fleet of foot.
\nJet Greaves came into this game 2-0-1 against the Capitals in his career with a 0.99 goals-against average, a .967 save percentage, and one shutout. He wasn\u2019t nearly as impenetrable in this one, but he was still pretty good, and his name is awesome.<\/p>\n
Despite winning 5-1, the Capitals were not good at all in this game, but they converted their chances and got tremendous goaltending. Columbus is going to be a good team this season, so it\u2019s not the end of the world to get outplayed by them; it\u2019s just important not to let it become a trend. Also, at the end of the day, two points are two points.
\nAlex Ovechkin scored career goal number 899 off of another faceoff play. Only 1:02 later, Justin Sourdif scored his second career goal and first with the Capitals. Almost there, Justin.
\nA five-minute major penalty was doled out to Mathieu Olivier for elbowing Declan Chisholm. I think that was the right call, even if Olivier didn\u2019t really mean to pick Chisholm\u2019s head. Chisholm was checked out by the trainers and returned to the bench.
\nLogan Thompson was unreal in the win. He also picked up his second point with the Capitals, notching the secondary assist on Sourdif\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n
The Capitals will return home to finish off a back-to-back against the awaiting Ottawa Senators on Saturday night. The Senators beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: @KStew2881 The Washington Capitals traveled north for their first road game in 12 days, taking on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-249837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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