The Washington Capitals battled their division rival New York Rangers in a back and forth contest on Wednesday night, but only one team could walk out with the victorious, full two points. That team would be your red clad Caps as they downed Hank and the bunch in the extra frame, 4-3.
The Caps out-shot the Rangers 38 to 32 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 48 to 41.
- Jakub Vrana played in his 100th career NHL game. Way to be Jake!
- Alex Ovechkin has tied Dino Ciccarelli for ninth all time in power play goals after scoring the 231st and 232nd of of his career. Ovil Office too OP.
Alex Ovechkin now has 231 career power play goals.
The second most power play goals since he entered the league is Thomas Vanek with 134.
The difference between Ovechkin and Vanek is the same as Vanek and a bunch of guys tied for 185th place.
— Dimitri Filipovic (@DimFilipovic) October 18, 2018
- Ovi also has now scored 24 goals against Henrik Lundqvist, the most against any one goaltender in his career. Marc-Andre Fleury is now second with 23 goals against.
Tonight marks the 44th anniversary of the @Capitals first-ever win in franchise history. On this day in 1974, Washington defeated Chicago 4-3 at the Capital Centre. #NHLStats pic.twitter.com/UpteOfO2E8
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) October 17, 2018
- As you can tell by the heat map, the Caps are still letting folks get far too many grade A opportunities right in Braden Holtby‘s grill so far this season. Luckily, he has already made about 15 to 20 superhuman saves to start this year. He was great again tonight, making 29 stops.
- Special shoutout goes out to one of my faves, Christian Djoos and his defensive partner Brooks Orpik. The two had the lowest offensive zone start percentages of any Capitals defensemen and still led the defense core in both five-on-five scoring chance for percentage and high danger chance for percentage, albeit against weaker competition.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com, NaturalStatTrick.com, and Corsica.hockey.
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