The Washington Capitals’ journey through late-night games in western Canada began on Monday night and the Vancouver Canucks, where the road team put up maybe their best sixty-minute effort of the still-young season.
Scoring began as scoring so often does, with John Carlson recording a goal after a great feed from Jakub Vrana. Vancouver tied it in the second as defenseman Troy Stecher got a deflection off Nic Dowd’s glove to beat Holtby. Kuznetsov got a power-play goal, and Ovechkin crashed the net to make it 3-1 after two period.
Sven Baertschi got a very lucky rebound to bring the Canucks within one goal early in the third, but Alex Ovechkin replied with his second of the night, a screamer on the power play. TJ Oshie got the empty-netter and ended it.
Caps beat Canucks 5-2!
(it’s too late at night for bailamos)
Alex Ovechkin with the powerplay goa…. HEY WAIT THATS KUZY pic.twitter.com/xTLOARcxCW
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 23, 2018
#JoeBSuitOfTheNight #CapsNucks pic.twitter.com/rm7b2dS0nV
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 23, 2018
Aside from the laughers that opened the season, this was the most solid effort I’ve seen from the Caps this season. They’ll have the chance to improve further on Thursday night in Edmonton. Time for another slumber party. See you there.
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