The Washington Capitals finally lost on the road. Their 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Dallas Stars on Monday night was their first loss on the road since November 3 against the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Capitals got goalie’d by Jake Oettinger. There’s not much you can do about that.
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- Spencer Carbery was happy with his team’s five-on-five process in the game and, per usual, he was on the money. The Capitals were the clearly better team at five-on-five, out-attempting Dallas 52-36 and out-chancing them 28-17. A lot of bounces have gone Washington’s way up until this point of the season. They got none of them in this game.
- I mentioned Jake Oettinger in the intro because he was one of the primary drivers of the Stars’ win. Oettinger made 30 stops and, per MoneyPuck, saved 1.42 goals above expected.
- The other main contributing factor in the loss was the Capitals losing the special teams battle. They went 0-for-4 on their power play and allowed a Dallas power-play goal on two attempts.
With an assist on Strome's game-opening goal, Jakob Chychrun extended his point and assist streak to four games (1g-5a-6p). It marks Chychrun's second four-game point streak of the season (also 11/25/24 – 11/30/2024: 3g-4a-7p).
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- Dylan Strome scored the club’s lone goal. Strome is riding a four-game point streak, recording four points (3g, 1a) in those games.
- Since 2000, Dallas is 25-9-1 against Washington. The Capitals have not won three games in a row against the Stars since 1990 when Dallas was Minnesota and the Stars were the North Stars.
- Spencer Carbery is not loving Hendrix Lapierre right now. Lapierre played just 7:02 of ice time in the game, giving him a combined 14:32 of ice time in his last two games.
Numbers thanks to Hockey-Reference, NaturalStatTrick, and HockeyStatCards.
