The Washington Capitals are still a mess. They let Mika Zibanejad score on them five times and lost to the New York Rangers 6-5 in overtime.
The Rangers out-shot the Caps 39 to 34 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 42 to 36.
- There is something seriously, structurally wrong with your Washington Capitals and seemingly every team in the league other than the Caps know it. This was another bad effort at even strength compounded by even more bad special teams play and discipline. The team is 14-14-2 in their last 30 games.
- Alex Ovechkin is tied for the league lead in goals again at 47 after his two goal night. That is rightfully overshadowed by the fact that Mika Zibanejad scored five goals on the Caps.
- The Caps went 0-for on their power play yet again and put the Rangers up a man six total times in the game, leading to two power play goals against. There isn’t a thing about this team that is working right, right now.
John Carlson has reached the 60 assist mark this season in his 67th game. He becomes the ninth defenseman since 1979-80 to record 60 assists within 67 games.
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) March 6, 2020
- Ilya Kovalchuk got on the board for the first time in a Caps sweater. That’s cool.
- Carl Hagelin scored his eighth goal of the season to open the game and now has 15 points in his last 20 games.
- The Caps were not good, but Ilya Samsonov cant be giving up six goals on 39 shots.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-reference.com and NaturalStatTrick.com.
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