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Capitals vs Kings live analysis and updates (March 6, 2023)

By Ian Oland

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March 6, 2023 10:36 pm

This is your place to check for updates and comment along with the Washington Capitals vs. Los Angeles Kings game on March 6, 2023.

Good times have hit the Washington Capitals. With a win against the Los Angeles Kings, the Capitals will have their first three-game winning streak since their exemplary December. Their consecutive victories have catapulted their playoff chances to 10.9%, per MoneyPuck.

The Caps will feature much of the same lineup from Saturday, but some of the lines and pairings have changed. You can read about that here.

Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington. Puck drop is a little after 10:30 pm.

Lines

Pregame Shenanigans

1st Period

The Capitals start Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Wilson and Sandin-TVR. Darcy Kuemper will oppose Pheonix Copley in net. Hey! I remember that guy!!

The Kings have eight of the first nine shots on goal (with 11:13 remaining in the first).

Evgeny Kuznetsov takes a hooking penalty in the offensive zone with 7.2 seconds left.

Kind of the same story as the Sharks game in the first period. The Kings completely dominated play. They had 19 of the 22 shots in the first period. The Caps had exactly three. But the good news is they handled all that pressure and kept most everything to the perimeter.

The Kings led in 5v5 shot attempts 26-5, scoring chances 16-2, high-danger chances 9-1, and in overall expected goals that period 2.17 to 0.34. Wowie Yowie.

2nd Period

Kevin Fiala cross-checks Tom Wilson, negating the rest of the Kings power play. It’ll be four-on-four for 1:48 and the Caps will get a 12 second power play.

Anze Kopitar off the crossbar on a two-on-one one-timer attempt.

Craig Smith takes a slashing call 8:37 into the period.

🚨 1-0 Capitals. Rasmus Sandin scores his first goal as a Capital after whiffing twice on a shot attempt. Eventually his third, from the slot on his backhand, squeaks through Phenic Copley. The Kings had 24 of the first 34 shots of the game at this point.

🚨 1-1 tie. Welp, that didn’t last long. Less than two minutes later, the Kings’ Vladislav Gavrikov ties it up after scoring on a rebound. Kuzy lost him in coverage.

🚨 2-1 Kings. Phillip Danault scores on a beautiful deflection of a point shot. Kuemper thought initially it was deflected with a high stick. The goal happened with 33 seconds left in the period.

Nic Dowd takes a no bueno penalty, which will allow the Kings to start the third on a power play.

The shots are 29-13 Kings. The Kings have a 40-19 edge in 5v5 shot attempts and an expected goals advantage of 3.25 to 1.16.

3rd Period

Big PK here for the Caps.

Back to four-on-four hockey after Vilardi takes a hooking penalty on TVR.

Sandin draws a penalty on Arvidsson. Four-on-three PP for the Caps.

The Capitals have a 5-on-3 PP for over a minute now.

🚨 2-2 tie. Alex Ovechkin scores on a power-play for career goal no. 816 on Pheonix Copley.

TJ Oshie just laid out Sean Durzi with a huge hit. Durzi is down the tunnel. Oshie tapped him with his stick on his way off the ice.

🚨 3-2 Kings. Mikey Anderson was defended well but manages to chip a centering pass past Darcy Kuemper from the slot. The goal came at the 7:52 mark of the third.

Sonny Milano to the box for high-sticking at 10:34 of the period.

Four-on-four hockey again. Matt Roy to the box for slashing on Evgeny Kuznetsov at 11:17.

Byfield appears to high-stick Evgeny Kuznetsov with under 2 minutes to go but the refs miss it.

🚨 4-2 Kings. Adrian Kempe scores the empty-netter with seconds left. It’s his 30th of the season. Caps lose.

Kings outshoot the Capitals 41-22. Kings had the edge in 5v5 shot attempts 53-27 and in expected goals 4.07 to 2.25.

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