The Washington Capitals played a stinker of a game that just seemed to get worse as it progressed. The St. Louis Blues picked up their third straight victory, downing the Caps 4-1 and moving themselves suddenly back into the Western Conference playoff hunt.
The Blues out-shot the Caps 37 to 29 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 52 to 38.
- Believe it or not, the Caps actually held a lead in this game through twenty minutes in a pretty evenly played period. That all changed when they got dunked on in the second period, bleeding chances and letting the Blues score three unanswered goals to really put this game away. The third period effort definitely wasn’t going to get it done either and the result is a very ugly heat map.
- Brooks Orpik played in his 1000th career NHL game. Congrats, Batya.
- Alex Ovechkin‘s power play goal in the first period was the 640th goal of his career, which ties him for 14th all time with Dave Andreychuk. It also was his 238th career power play goal, which moved him past Brendan Shanahan for sole possession of sixth all time in that category.
- Can you name a Caps player that had a “good” game here? I cant.
- The Caps go back to back against the Nashville Predators tonight and their Metro Division lead is ever shrinking as the Blue Jackets and Penguins are now only two and three points away from them respectively. Not great.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com, NaturalStatTrick.com, and Corsica.hockey.
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