The Washington Capitals hosted and defeated the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday with a final score of 6-3. Evgeny Kuznetsov scored twice, Tom Wilson had three assists, and Nick Jensen posted his eighth career multi-point game (1g, 1a).
The game was capped by an Alex Ovechkin empty-net goal. In my humble opinion, every game should end with an Ovi goal.
Here are the highlights and important moments from the game.
Capitals lines
#Caps expected lines tonight vs. COL:
Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Wilson
Mantha-Eller-Sprong
Sheary-McMichael-Oshie
Hagelin-Dowd-HathawayFehervary-Carlson
Orlov-Jensen
TvR-SchultzSamsonov
— Tarik El-Bashir (@Tarik_ElBashir) October 19, 2021
Rude.
The nuance in this tweet. The Avs social media person knows what they are doing and we see them. We will find you.
Let’s capitalize. #GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/FqXVE8eeXd
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) October 19, 2021
Evgeny Kuznetsov opens the scoring.
BIRD LAND! pic.twitter.com/CeksiXy20I
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) October 19, 2021
All tied up at 1-1.
Scored by JT Compher…shorthanded…yeesh.
Fun fact, this is Compher’s sixth career shorty.
You just love to see it. #GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/q4oX9cAjYA
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) October 19, 2021
Nick Jensen takes the lead 2-1.
Not sure where the superstar offense from Nick Jensen is coming from these days, but you won’t catch us complaining!
Give and go perfection 💯 pic.twitter.com/x2xRJ3uTdI
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) October 19, 2021
Avs tie the game at the start of the 2nd.
Darren Helm ties it up with an excellent set up from O’Connor.
OC 🤝 Helm
Straight fire. #GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/8hAQYCTgeZ
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) October 20, 2021
Anthony Mantha scores with 5:13 left in the 2nd.
Okay wait, so like something weird happened. The play-by-play completely stopped and then Anthony Mantha scored. Just silence followed by a roaring cheer in the arena?? Grateful, but real weird!
Skate –> stick –> net pic.twitter.com/91Q2z6Xws8
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) October 20, 2021
Another goal for Evgeny Kuznetsov 4-2.
FLYYYYY!!!!! The assists went to Wilson and Orlov.
The bird man is feeling it pic.twitter.com/33IApdNuMv
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) October 20, 2021
Nic Dowd scores at the beginning of the third 5-2
Nic Dowd scored his first goal of the season only 39 seconds into the third period.
MOAR GOALS!!!!! pic.twitter.com/obBSZ4MUsw
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) October 20, 2021
Mikko Rantanen scores for the Avs 5-3.
Avs pulled their goalie and scored on a power play with 3:06 left in the third period yada yada yada.
Mikko Rantanen scores his first goal of the season, assisted by Nathan MacKinnon. It’s 5-3 Caps with 3:06 left.
— Peter Baugh (@Peter_Baugh) October 20, 2021
Alex Ovechkin ends the game with an empty netter. Caps win 6-3.
SHAKE, RATTLE, AND ROLL! Four goals in the last three games for the great eight.
Any kind of Ovi goal is a gr8 one pic.twitter.com/82I5gluzmx
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) October 20, 2021
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