The Washington Capitals are coming home after a troubled, early-season road trip through Canada that found them sick, injured, and tired. Hoping to take a win in their last of three games, the Caps instead got stymied by the Calgary Flames, who dominated play and generated chances.
The Caps survived a scoreless first, but early in the second Michael Ferland dropped a pass to Brett Kulak and then redirected his shot for a goal. The Flames failed a clear early in the third, and Jakub Vrana turned that into a tying goal. Calgary got the lead back courtesy of Johnny Goudreau, who undressed Dmitry Orlov and set up Sean Monahan perfectly on a play entirely of his devising.
Flames beat Caps 2-1.
Troy Brouwer unleashed his #BrouwerPouwer on his former team, but the pipe said no @tjyoshie77 pic.twitter.com/HgSNsu4w0q
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 30, 2017
#JoeBSuitOfTheNight #CapsFlames pic.twitter.com/Mgou0OevKS
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 30, 2017
Maybe come spring we’ll look back on this road trip as a miserable but fleeting blip – a moment when the Caps were beat up and roster-thin, before they eventually got it together and played like they oughta. I sure hope so. Aside from some good stuff in Edmonton, this was a ghastly long weekend for Washington.
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