On Friday, the Caps beat their nemesis Pittsburgh Penguins in relatively convincing fashion. This victory led fans, myself included, to believe that things could be back on the right track for DC’s hockey team. We who believed such a thing were wrong. Instead of another satisfactory effort against the Edmonton Oilers, we got one of the worst efforts in the entire Alex Ovechkin era. And yet, the Caps still somehow escaped with a 2-1 victory.
The Capitals were out-attempted by the Oilers five-on-five 62 to 28. They were also out shot 30 to 19.
Numbers thanks to Hockeystats.ca, NaturalStatTrick.com, and Corsica.hockey.
Full RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Oilers
Headline photo: Patrick McDermott
Russian Machine Never Breaks is not associated with the Washington Capitals; Monumental Sports, the NHL, or its properties. Not even a little bit.
All original content on russianmachineneverbreaks.com is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)– unless otherwise stated or superseded by another license. You are free to share, copy, and remix this content so long as it is attributed, done for noncommercial purposes, and done so under a license similar to this one.
Share On