Fresh off consecutive overtime losses, the Washington Capitals will attempt to reverse their losing ways Tuesday against the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. The Panthers arrived in town early and celebrated their championship at The White House on Monday.
The Capitals will go with the same lineup. Logan Thompson will get a second straight start in net and will oppose Sergei Bobrovsky.
The Capitals-Panthers game is airing on Monumental Sports Network. Joe Beninati and Alan May will have the call. Puck drop is at 7:00 pm. Craig Laughlin is out due to a medical leave of absence. #LockerStrong.
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Washington Capitals
Florida Panthers
Tunnel shenanigans
1st Period
Puck is droped.
Capitals already going to the power play 3:24 in after Jonah Gadjovich hooks Taylor Raddysh in the hands.
Caps power play still struggling, don’t register a shot on goal.
Aaron Ekblad to the box for delay of game.
Again the Capitals can’t score.
🚨 1-0 Washington Capitals. WSH Goal: Andrew Mangiapane (11). Assists: R. Sandin (15), N. Dowd (9). Time: 14:08.
A wide-open Andrew Mangiapane scores from the left circle, beating Sergei Bobrovsky short-side over the shoulder.
🚨 1-1 tie. FLA Goal: Sam Bennett (19). Assists: J. Boqvist (9). Time: 19:30.
Some great news here.
Craig Laughlin stable and recovering after successful open-heart surgery
Florida’s forecheck overwhelms the Capitals as they try to leave the zone. Bennett eventually scores after throwing a rocket on net.
At intermission: The Panthers are outshooting the Capitals 12 to 9 and out-attempting them 20 to 10.
2nd Period
Puck is dropped.
Uh oh, Rasmus Sandin to the box for tripping Sam Reinhart 23 seconds into the frame.
🚨 2-1 Washington Capitals. WSH SHG: Tom Wilson (22). Assists: A. Protas (23). Time: 01:15.
Oh that worked out good! Wilson makes a steal. Protas skates the puck down and feeds to Willy, who fires and scores. What a goal.
🚨 2-2 tie. FLA Goal: Aleksander Barkov (13). Assists: C. Verhaeghe (27), S. Reinhart (29). Time: 03:14.
The two-time Selke award-winner with a beautiful individual play, scoring contested on a breakaway via his backhand.
Nate Schmidt dives to break up a Lars Eller breakaway attempt.
Dmitry Kulikov to the box for tripping Aliaksei Protas at 18:58.
Caps can’t score in the first part of it. They’ll still be a man up for the first 58 seconds of the third period.
At intermission: This is a great game between two good teams. The Panthers are outshooting the Capitals 19 to 17 and out-attempting them at five-on-five 33 to 25.
3rd Period
Puck is dropped.
The Capitals second power play unit takes the opening faceoff after having most of the chances on the evening.
Caps can’t score.
🚨 3-2 Washington Capitals. WSH Goal: Lars Eller (9). Unassisted. Time: 02:19.
Eller makes no mistake on his second breakaway of the night. Bobrovsky goes for a poke-check and Eller dekes around it for the scoar.
🚨 4-2 Washington Capitals. WSH Goal: Nic Dowd (11). Assists: A. Mangiapane (8), D. Strome (36). Time: 06:10.
Mangiapane wheels up the ice and finds a crashing-the-net Dowd. who chips it past Bobrovsky NHL 25-style. A fracas breaks out between everyone on the ice after Dowd crashes into the goalie after scoring.
Caps and Panthers playing four-on-four after Jakob Chychrun and Evan Rodrigues goes to the box for roughing after the goal.
🚨 4-3 Washington Capitals. FLA Goal (4on4): Matthew Tkachuk (19). Assists: N. Schmidt (8), S. Bennett (16). Time: 07:46.
Tkachuk with a beautiful top-shelf snipe beating Thompson.
🚨 5-3 Washington Capitals. WSH ENG: Aliaksei Protas (22). Unassisted. Time: 18:21.
Carter Verhaeghe’s stick shatters in half and the puck goes right to Aliaksei Protas who fires it into the empty net from the defensive zone. Caps take a 5-3 lead with 1:39 remaining.
🚨 6-3 Washington Capitals. WSH ENG: Alex Ovechkin (25). Assists: M. Fehervary (11). Time: 19:59.
Ovi scores on the empty net with 0.1 remaining. It’s career goal no. 878.
Capitals win 6-3. The Panthers outshot the Capitals 34 to 26 and out-attempted them 52 to 36 at five-on-five.
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