From the outset, this game between the Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets was billed as the battle of two Vezina Trophy-winning goalies. Braden Holtby and Sergei Bobrovsky, along with their buddy in Montreal, are the cream of the crop when it comes to dudes who stop rubber discs in the NHL. Who would come out the victor in this one? As we all know, goalie wins are the key indicator of best goalie, so analytics that if you want.
Once a nacho boy now a goal scorer, Brett Connolly got the good guys off to a fast start, then Alex Chiasson made that start even better with a goal of his own. 2-0 Caps after 20 minutes.
In the second, Artemi Panarin finished off a dominating Columbus shift to narrow the Caps lead and Matt Calvert scored shorthanded to tie the game up. Alex Ovechkin did the thing that he does on the power play to restore the lead.
In the third, Evgeny Kuznetsov stayed hot and boosted the Caps lead back to two. Werenski tightened things with a late goal.
Caps beat Blue Jackets 4-3!
Bob: How’s the Panarin matchup going?
Pete Campbell: NOT GREAT BOB
(via https://t.co/re4jYbbyLm) pic.twitter.com/S1MRrGQ8nV— Peter Hassett (@peterhassett) December 3, 2017
With his 218th career power play goal, Alex Ovechkin has passed Mike Gartner and Jaromir Jagr for 10th place on the NHL’s all-time power play goals list. Additionally, Ovechkin has tied Mark Recchi (577) for 20th place on the all-time goals list.
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) December 3, 2017
Already up 2-0 before I had a chance to grab the #JoeBSuitOfTheNight let’s go Caps! pic.twitter.com/mZ7KrjmD33
— Peter Hassett (@peterhassett) December 3, 2017
Joe B suit of the night
California knows how to party and part of that state is coming to DC on Monday when the Sharks make a visit to Capital One Arena. That’s your next opportunity to take in some Caps puck.
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