The Washington Capitals finished their season set with the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night, securing a victory and two points in the standings after downing Connor McDavid and the bunch, 4-2.
The Oilers out-shot the Caps 33 to 23 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 59 to 42.
- The move to promote Dmitrij Jaskin to the top line is an early success. Jaskin led the team in five-on-five shot attempt percentage (69.6-percent), Alex Ovechkin led the team in five-on-five scoring chance for percentage (81.3-percent), and all three forwards shared a plus-five high danger chance differential. That last bit is particularly noteworthy as Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov have struggled to start the season with limiting opposition chances at even strength.
- Travis Boyd popped up from Hershey and immediately tallied two assists. This was the first multi point game of his career. Boyd is still looking for his first career goal as he now has three assists in nine NHL games.
- Ovechkin’s 11th goal of the season came on the power play and tied him for eigth all time in power play goals with Marcel Dionne.
- Another great game in the cage for Pheonix Copley as he registered 31 saves in his first ever regulation victory. I think Pheonix might have been surprised that games are allowed to end before the shootout.
- Lets watch this again because we can:
A spinning Nicklas Backstrom finds TJ Oshie wide open for the goal. Goodness gracious. 3-1 Caps. pic.twitter.com/FvugPRIEvH
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) November 6, 2018
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com, NaturalStatTrick.com, and Corsica.hockey.
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