The Washington Capitals continued their up and down, up and down, up and down play on Saturday afternoon with an impressive 5-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. That one felt good.
Total shots were deadlocked at 28 apiece, but the Caps out-attempted the Pens at five-on-five 41 to 39.
By Chris Cerullo 4 years ago
The Washington Capitals did something they haven’t done in a while: win a game in entertaining, convincing fashion. And as a bonus, they did it against the Penguins.
It was a fun first period, with the Caps securing an early lead off Nic Dowd’s stick, then extending it with Nicklas Backstrom and Richard Panik. The second period came and went without a goal, but Nic Dowd scored a shorthanded goal early in the third.
Sidney Crosby snapped the shutout as Brenden Dillon turned the puck over in the defensive zone, then Evgeni Malkin made it 4-2 with a power-play, but TJ Oshie returned fire with a quick shot from the slot to restore the three-goal lead and win.
Caps win.
By Peter Hassett 4 years ago
The Washington Capitals’ secondary scoring is Having Itself A Day against the Pittsburgh Penguins, y’all.
After the fourth line combined to score twice in a three-goal first period, Nic Dowd scored shorthanded in the third period to (hopefully) put the dagger into the Penguins.
By Ian Oland 4 years ago
The Washington Capitals put up consecutive terrible performances against the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers earlier in the week. So how would they respond against rival Pittsburgh, Saturday?
Like a buzzsaw, apparently.
The Capitals scored three unanswered goals to start the game, feasting on poor defense by the Penguins.
A healthy Caps team takes on a shaky-but-scary Penguins team today at 1 PM. Here’s your injury report.
By Peter Hassett 4 years ago
Hoo boy, the Capitals stink lately. And today at 1 PM in Pittsburgh, we’ll watch them either continue to stink or actually, ya know, do something about it. Here’s some comfort I can offer you: the Penguins have been pretty bad lately too, having just recently snapped a long losing streak.
Puck drop is at 1 PM. I have the sarcastic honorrrrr of doing the recap.
By Peter Hassett 4 years ago
