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Live blog: Capitals try to end losing streak against Panthers

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The Washington Capitals, fresh off a 5-2 blowout loss to the Montreal Canadiens, are in Sunrise to take on the Florida Panthers. The Panthers will be another difficult task as the 2023 Eastern Conference Champions are 31-15-4 on the season — sixth best in the NHL.

With the Capitals losers of five straight, Spencer Carbery will turn to Darcy Kuemper in net. The bench boss is also giving Matthew Phillips a sweater for the first time in a month. Midseason signing Ethan Bear will return to the lineup.

Tonight’s game is on Monumental Sports Network. Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin have the call. Rasmus Sandin will be playing in his 200th career game.

Lines

Alex Alexeyev, Trevor van Riemsdyk, and Nicolas Aube-Kubel are the Capitals’ scratches.

1st Period

Darcy Kuemper will oppose Sergei Bobrovsky in net. Pacioretty-McMichael-Oshie and Sandin-Carlson get the start for the Caps.

Jonah Gadjovich to the box at 3:14 for boarding Rasmus Sandin. The Capitals get the first power play of the game.

Beck Malenstyn to the box for goalie interference at 6:22. He got tripped by a Panthers defender as he was driving to the net and gently ran into Bobrovsky.

Matthew Tkachuk and Martin Fehervary each to the box for slashing after getting in a tussle along the boards.

Beck Malenstyn sprung on a breakaway coming out of the penalty box, but is stopped by Bobrovsky with his left pad. He’s getting a penalty shot after being hooked from behind by Oliver Ekman-Larsson.

Sergei Bobrovsky stops Beck Malenstyn on the penalty shot. Malenstyn shot on his forehand and Bobrovsky stopped it with his blocker pad.

Nic Dowd to the box for interference at 9:52.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson to the box for high-sticking TJ Oshie at 15:00.

🚨 1-0 Capitals. Alex Ovechkin beats Sergei Bobrovsky from his office on the power play for career goal number 833! It’s his 11th goal of the season.

Alex Ovechkin has goals in three straight after scoring 833rd of career on Sergei Bobrovsky

TJ Oshie trips Dmitry Kulikov at 19:39. Florida gets a late period power play.

The first period was mostly an exercise of special teams. The Caps were 1 for 2 while the Panthers were 0 for 3. The Panthers outshot the Capitals 14 to 13 and out-attempted them at five-on-five, 13 to 10.

2nd Period

Puck is dropped.

🚨 1-1 tie. Matthew Tkachuk redirects a Gustav Forsling shot from the point off his right toe past Darcy Kuemper. Max Pacioretty was slow to get out to defend, which game Forsling the time to fire the puck on net. The goal comes at 4:29 of the period.

Nick Cousins decks Mike Sgarbossa after a whistle drawing a huge crowd.

Tom Wilson just checked the bejesus out of Alex Ovechkin in the offensive zone after missing a Panthers player. NOT THE OVI, TOM.

No goal. Evan Rodrigues picks up a turnover at the blue line by Martin Fehervary and scores easily on Kuemper via a semi-breakaway. BUT – the goal is reversed after a successful offside challenge by Spencer Carbery.

Nic Dowd takes his second minor of the game at 8:28 after tripping Jonah Gadjovich near the crease.

The Panthers hit the post twice on the resulting power play but can’t score.

🚨 2-1 Capitals. Brilliant pass by Michael SCOARbossa to Anthony Mantha to give the Caps back the lead. A dead tired Aliaksei Protas made the play happen as he skated the puck into the zone at the tail end of his shift. Mantha’s 16th of the season comes at 14:03 of the period.

Tom Wilson elbows a Panthers player in the head at the benches at 17:20.

🚨 2-2 tie. Sam Reinhart, unguarded, scores his 21st power play goal and his 38th goal of the season after a simple deflection past Kuemper in front of the net. Goal comes at 17:32, twelve seconds after Wilson entered the box.

Wilson was screaming at the official as he skated back to the bench. He was lucky not to get tossed.

Florida is outshooting the Capitals 25 to 17 and out-attempting them 36 to 22 at five-on-five. They had the puck A LOT in the second period.

3rd Period

Puck is dropped.

Lots of pushing and shoving after every whistle.

🚨 3-2 Panthers. Ryan Lomberg scores from the slot after Dylan Strome can’t clear and turns it over on the side boards. Goal comes at 14:28.

🚨 4-2 Panthers. Eetu Luostarinen scores the empty-netter at 19:06.

Six-straight losses for the Caps. They were in this game, but kinda not really.

Panthers outshoot the Capitals 41 to 23 and out-attempted them 70 to 37 at five-on-five. Yikes.

Read the RMNB recap:

Panthers beat Caps 4-2 as the losing streak hits six

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