The Washington Capitals were back at Capital One Arena and they had a hot date with a Western Conference foe in the Dallas Stars that has had a lot of success in our nation’s capital. That success would continue as the Stars downed the Caps 4-3 in overtime.
The Stars out-shot the Caps 36 to 32, but the Caps won the five-on-five shot attempt battle 58 to 36.
- Huge bright spot in this one was the play of Dmitrij Jaskin. Jaskin was deployed all over the lineup Saturday night and for good reason. He led all Caps in five-on-five shot attempt percentage (80.8-percent), scoring chance for percentage (84.6-percent), and high danger chance for differential (plus-four).
- With Brett Connolly‘s goal in this game, he now has nine points in twelve games this season. Compare that to last season where it took him 26 games to eclipse that same total. Conno is definitely chipping in and then some.
- This isn’t a number, Steve just posted this too late for me to get it into the recap:
That win was ok. Just ok. @russianmachine pic.twitter.com/E8ghaoyJT6
— Steve Dangle Glynn (@Steve_Dangle) November 4, 2018
- All six of Evgeny Kuznetsov‘s goals this season have come on the power play. He is now tied with Patrik Laine for the league lead in that category and only one power play marker shy of his career high of seven.
- I think I’d like to see Kuznetsov and Alex Ovechkin separated for awhile at this point. The pair was a minus-two at even strength and opponents have been feasting on them for high danger opportunities all season so far. Time to try something new.
- The Stars have now won seven of their last eight trips to DC. Yikeys.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com, NaturalStatTrick.com, and Corsica.hockey.
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