The Stars came to town on Tuesday night to play the Caps, who wore their blue Stadium Series jerseys to honor Isabelle’s new blue hair.
Tyler Seguin opened the scoring on the PP with about four minutes left in the first.
The Caps scored in a burst in the second. First, TJ Oshie tied it up and then Matt Niskanen put the good guys ahead. Later in the second, Alex Radulov deflected one home that put us back at square one. Alex Ovechkin scored number 44, this one on the PP, to put the team in blue back ahead, 3-2. Jamie Benn made the Caps look like a bunch of silly gooses towards the end of the period to tie the game at three.
With five minutes to go in the third, John Carlson capped off a strong four-on-four shift for the team with a bomb of a shot to give the Caps the lead.
Caps win 4-3!
OOPS, I WILL. Spin the “can’t measure his contributions” however you want but hockey is a game ultimately measured by goals. Caps score 39.3% of the goals at 5v5 w/Orpik on ice, worst on team. His on-ice goal differential is a -16, the next worst is a -6.
— Pat Holden (@pfholden) March 20, 2018
And let us rid the world of the notion that Orpik makes it tough for opponents around the crease. The Caps limit shots in close far better when he’s not on ice. Whatever his intangibles are, they doesn’t show up on scoreboard or shots against. But we all know this already.
FIN pic.twitter.com/JHIpNo1PUP— Pat Holden (@pfholden) March 20, 2018
Caps D 5v5 ice time through 2
Niskanen 12:42, Orlov 12:12, Kempny 12:04, Carlson 10:10, Djoos 8:00, Orpik 6:31— RMNB (@russianmachine) March 21, 2018
— Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) March 20, 2018
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