Live updates: Washington Capitals vs Carolina Hurricanes at Capital One Arena

The Washington Capitals are finally back home after a putrid six-game road streak. Now they’ll play the Metropolitan Division-leading Carolina Hurricanes without many of their star players back at home.

The Capitals will be without Pierre-Luc Dubois, Connor McMichael, Matt Roy, Logan Thompson, and Charlie Lindgren due to injury. (Yes, both of their starting goaltenders. Martin Fehervary will also miss the game due to personal reasons.

The Capitals called up forward Bogdan Trineyev and Garin Bjorklund from AHL Hershey to give themselves some relief before puck drop.

Clay Stevenson will get the start and oppose Frederik Andersen in net.

Coming into the game, the Capitals are six points out of third place in the Metropolitan Division and eight points out of the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

Puck drop for today’s game is scheduled for a little after 5:00 pm. Today’s game is on Monumental Sports Network. Joe Beninati, TJ Oshie, and Craig Laughlin have the call.

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Carolina Hurricanes

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Tunnel shenanigans

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1st Period

Puck is dropped. Frank-Dowd-Leonard and Chisholm-McIlrath get the start.

Ethen Frank with a rush down the ice, but misses the top right corner. the puck bounces off the glass and out of play.

Hurricanes with a 4-on-2 break but Clay Stevenson makes a sturdy save off his right shoulder.

Hendrix Lapierre draws the first penalty of the game, a hooking penalty on Taylor Hall at 2:21. Capitals to the power play.

Huge Ovi one-timer turned away by Andersen.

Hurricanes kill the power play.

Capitals give up another bad odd-man break. Stevenson making multiple saves down low.

Capitals second line with some nice work in the offensive zone, getting a few shots on goal.

Hurricanes are beginning to hem it in the zone.

Jankowski scores down low on a layup after Kotkaniemi flips the puck high into air to Carrier near the crease.

Justin Sourdif with a waltz right down main street, and he wildly misses the net with his slot shot. That would have been a big goal.

Sourdif with consecutive turnovers.

Now John Carlson with a bad, bad, bad defensive zone turnover to Aho. That’s another goal.

Sourdif in the corner gets hit, another turnover. Tough period for him.

At intermission: The Hurricanes lead 2-0. The Capitals are throwing a lot of rubber at the net — they lead in shots, 19 to 13 — but not scoring: their tale all season long.

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2nd Period

Puck is dropped.

Beauvillier and K’Andre Miller get tangled up in the neutral zone and the Hurricanes defenseman is smarting. He’s very slow to the bench.

Clay Stevenson loses sight of the puck as Duhaime and Milano skate in front of him and Shayne Gotisbehere picks the corner. Yikes.

Beauvillier prevents goal four for the Hurricanes as he makes Jankowski muff a layup off the post.

Hendrix Lapierre with some tenacious work down low, scores on a loose puck behind Andersen’s pads a la Lars Eller’s Stanley Cup-winning goal.

Taylor Hall runs into Aliaksei Protas as they criss-cross at the blue line, and he’s off for interference at 9:49.

Leonard turns the puck over on the power play then takes a punch by Aho, falls down, and then gets assessed an interference minor rushing back into the play. That’s a crazy call. 4-on-4.

Leonard is leaving the penalty box and going down to the locker room. Hope he’s okay. He took a huge shot from Aho.

Jakob Chychrun to the box for interference at 11:21. Carolina gets a 4-on-3 power play for 28 seconds. Then a 60 second 5-on-3.

Capitals kill the penalties. Huge.

Tom Wilson with a big hit on Taylor Hall and the former no. overall 1 pick chucks the puck over the glass. That’s a delay of game penalty at 18:27.

Ryan Leonard inches away from tying it in the final seconds.

At intermission: The Hurricanes lead 3-2. Decent period from the Capitals. The Caps lead in shots 26 to 17. The Capitals will start the third with 33 seconds remaining on their power play.

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3rd Period

Puck is dropped.

Caps can’t score on the remaining PP.

Sean Walker to the box for hooking Sonny Milano at 1:59. Caps back to the power play.

Ovi with a huge one-timer that handcuffs Andersen. He drops it with his glove.

Another Ovi one-timer. It goes off Andersen’s glove and mask and out.

Ethen Frank misses everyone with his pass on the power play and it goes to Clay Stevenson.

Caps can’t score on the power play.

Chisholm wide open down the left wing but his shot goes right into Andersen’s crest.

Jarvis with a one-timer from the right dot. Stevenson makes the save. Then Svechnikov races to the rebound and shoots it off the post.

Gotisbehere with a big shot, Stevenson makes the save again.

Ethen Frank races to beat an icing call.

Sandin caught with a high stick on a follow-through. That’s an owie.

Nice shot block by Sourdif on Chatfield.

Tom Wilson nails Stankoven behind the net, looks like he caught him in the head a bit. Stankoven goes to nail Aliaksei Protas and he gets railed again.

Meanwhile, Chychrun shoots and he ties the game!

Rod Brind’Amour is fuming behind the bench.

Stevenson gets the puck behind the net, passes to TVR. TVR hand-cuffed. He dekes and almost sends the puck into the yawning net. That woulda been BAD.

Ethen Frank gets the puck in the slot with 23.4 seconds remaining, but Miller blocks it off the ice.

At the end of regulation: The game is tied 3-3. Impressive standings point earned by the Caps, but moral victories won’t get them into the playoffs, only real wins will. They outshot Carolina 39 to 22 through three periods.

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Overtime

Puck is dropped.

Hurricanes gain possession. Strome lost the faceoff. Not sure why Dowd starts if he’s not even going to take the faceoff.

Back down the ice, Chychrun sends a one-timer on net. It knicks off Andersen’s glove barely.

Sourdif hustles to a loose puck and scores. Carlson took out the goalie after Taylor Hall pushes him into the crease. Big win. They need a bunch more of those.

Capitals win 4-3 (OT).

Comeback Caps crunch collapsing Canes 4-3!

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