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The Washington Capitals further diminished their playoffs hopes, losing to the Boston Bruins in a very long shootout on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
After a goal-less first, 75 seconds into the second, Matt Roy scored his second of the season for the first of the game. Ten minutes later Charle McAvoy eluded Logan Thompson with the aid of a screen.<\/p>\n
Tied 1-1 going into the third, Rasmus Sandin scored from way outside to restore Washington\u2019s lead. Charlie McAvoy got his second goal of the game with ten minutes left in regulation, tipping Pavel Zacha\u2019s shot to tie the game.<\/p>\n
Overtime gave us nothing but dyspepsia. Let\u2019s do shootout bullets!<\/p>\n
Dubois did NOT put the biscuit in the basket.
\nEyssimont did NOT put the biscuit in the basket. Ping.
\nLeonard did NOT put the biscuit in the basket. Ping.
\nPastrnak did NOT put the biscuit in the basket.
\nStrome did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nArvidsson did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nBeauvillier did NOT put the biscuit in the basket. Ping again.
\nMittelstadt did NOT put the biscuit in the basket.
\nMcMichael did NOT put the biscuit in the basket.
\nMcAvoy did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nOvechkin did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nZacha did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\ndid you ever read blood meridian
\nChychrun did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nGeekie did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nFrank did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nLohrei did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nProtas did NOT\u00a0put the biscuit in the basket.
\nMinten put the biscuit in the basket. Oh god.<\/p>\n
Caps lose.<\/p>\n
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More Info<\/a><\/p>\n The Caps played well through the first and second periods. Though the Boston Bruins sit above the Caps in the standings, they\u2019re a weaker team at five-on-five. After an uneven effort in Buffalo, I liked a lot of Washington\u2019s performance here, between the goal lines, at least, for through two periods. Cole Hutson now free to sign NHL contract and join Capitals after Boston University eliminated from Hockey East tournament<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Notorious goal non-scorer Matt Roy scored his second goal of the season. The last one came on November 17, 2025<\/a>. The one before that was in March. Fun trivia: Rasmus Sandin and Matt Roy both play the \u201cdefense\u201d position in hockey. sighwhat do you think joe is wearing right now<\/p>\n \u2014 RMNB (@rmnb.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-03-14T19:14:26.239Z<\/a><\/p>\n Should of let Ovi shoot twice in the shootout.<\/p>\n This game didn\u2019t massively impact Washington\u2019s playoff chances, which were already below 20 percent by every reckoning. Hope is still alive, but there\u2019s an old priest and young priest in the hallway.<\/p>\n Senators on Wednesday. Six more home games in the Ovi era, as far as we know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: kurly from #crashers The Washington Capitals further diminished their playoffs hopes, losing to the Boston Bruins in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-524643","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\/524643","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=524643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut the chances simply weren\u2019t going in. Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman stopped three Rasmus Sandin shots before he finally got that big goal. It\u2019s a theme we\u2019ve heard a lot: the Caps still struggle to score, much like you in high school probably.
\nThe Bruins of the third period were much, much more aggressive, fully reversing the flow of play. The Arvidsson \u2013 Zacha \u2013 Mittelstadt was on attack every shift. It was a 3:1 ratio of Bs attempts to Caps attempts.
\nHendrix Lapierre\u2018s post-deadline deployment experiment continues. He skated with PLD and Tom Wilson for Washington\u2019s best forward line and recorded a secondary assist on the Matt Roy goal.
\nPsyched for this, taking bets in comments on when it happens. Get this kid a lanyard, Tony P\u2019s phone number, and a romantic partner who works for a defense contractor.<\/p>\n
\nI try not to do the routine too much where some goals are the goalie\u2019s fault and some are not, but we all know neither of McAvoy\u2019s goalies were Logan Thompson\u2019s fault. The first time he saw either shot was when he fished them out of the net.
\nThe Bruins got away with a puck-over-glass delay-of-game penalty during a third period Caps power-play. The Caps didn\u2019t convert. They didn\u2019t even threaten the Boston net until the end of that PP. It\u2019s pathetic the team hasn\u2019t done more to work on it this entire season.
\nBecause of the penalty kill and lack of stoppages, three-on-three overtime never had fewer than seven skaters on the ice.<\/p>\n