The Washington Capitals returned home from their short road trip and quickly decided that they were not going to win this game, going down 4-0 in the first period. The later two periods were better, but too little too late and the boys fell 6-3 after an empty netter sealed an Avs win.
The Caps out-shot the Avalanche 32 to 25 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 46 to 44.
- Look folks, the Caps second period was fantastic. They doubled the Avs in scoring chances and out-high danger chanced them at five-on-five 5 to 0. Oh, they were already losing 4-0 and then they put up not a very good third period too? Yikes.
- Braden Holtby didn’t make a single save in the 7:54 of ice time he played in the first. He allowed three goals on three shots and was pulled for Ilya Samsonov who went on to stop 19 of 21 pucks fired his way. I’m sure the conversation about this will be entirely reasonable and civil!
- Evgeny Kuznetsov picked up an assist in the game and now has recorded a point in all four games he has played since returning from suspension.
T.J. Oshie cuts the Avalanche's lead to 4-2 with his fourth goal of the season. That marks his 106th goal as a Capital, the second most on the team since he joined in 2015-16 (Alex Ovechkin: 187).
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- Lars Eller now has five points in seven games to start the year. His third line was the Caps best on the night.
- Nic Dowd played in his 200th career NHL game. His fourth line reversed their trend of being very good and instead were very bad in their limited ice time at five-on-five.
- The Washington Nationals are one win away from the World Series and Patrick Corbin is on the mound tonight to try and send them there.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com and NaturalStatTrick.com.
