said of the assist postgame<\/a>. \u201cIt feels pretty good, not going to lie. You know, I think that was maybe my second career apple in NHL, but a heck of a play by Lenny there.\u201d<\/p>\nLindgren registered the assist in his 10th appearance this season after going without one for a combined 100 games since the end of the 2022-23 campaign. He recorded his first career point against the Columbus Blue Jackets on March 21, 2023, assisting on a Nick Jensen goal in a 7-6 overtime loss.<\/p>\n
After the game, Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery made a point of recognizing Lindgren\u2019s overall effort during his customary victory speech and added a special shoutout to Lindgren\u2019s newest playmaking exploit.<\/p>\n
\u201cChuckie, great job,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cYou picked up an apple! You got an apple tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, first apple in a while,\u201d Lindgren responded.<\/p>\n
Lindgren was particularly excellent early in Wednesday night\u2019s win, which Carbery made sure to highlight during his postgame media availability.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe save on Goodrow, it\u2019s 0-0 game, there\u2019s a couple big saves,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they go up 1-0, I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s going to change the entire game, but it\u2019s a different game. You\u2019re chasing it now, and you\u2019re down 1-0, back-to-back. Does that change the outcome? I\u2019m not sure, but it certainly would change that first period and how it went.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor him to make those saves at 0-0, to keep it like that, and then us to be able to build a lead, and [he] made some other big saves throughout the game. He\u2019s been fantastic. Real happy for him because of the start he had and playing back-to-backs. It just looks like he\u2019s in a real groove now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lindgren, serving in the backup role to Logan Thompson this season, is now 5-3-1 on the year with a 2.90 goals-against average, a .893 save percentage, and one shutout. He has won four starts in a row after allowing four goals to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a 5-3 loss on November 6.<\/p>\n
The win was also Lindgren\u2019s 63rd career win as a member of the Capitals, passing Jose Theodore (62) for the eighth-most wins in franchise history. He is four wins away from tying Pat Riggin for seventh on that list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lost in the offensive explosion from the Washington Capitals in their 7-1 blowout of the San Jose Sharks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-331833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331833","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=331833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}