Wayne Gretzky once said, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Alex Ovechkin is the skating embodiment of this quote.
Saturday against the Philadelphia Flyers, Ovechkin scored the 716th goal of his career and fired four shots on net. The four shots moved Ovi (5,639) past Jaromir Jagr (5,637) for second all-time on the NHL’s shots list.
The Washington Capitals have won four straight and three of those wins have come against the Philadelphia Flyers in less than a week’s time. Saturday night saw the Caps hold on to a 5-4 victory over those Flyers and keep pace with the surging New York Islanders in the division.
The Flyers outshot the Caps 32 to 23 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 48 to 35.
By Chris Cerullo 6 months ago
Daniel Sprong scored four minutes and 40 seconds into Saturday’s game against the Flyers. But by the end of the night, he was demoted and moved off the second line.
After having 2-0 and 5-2 leads over the Flyers, the Capitals hung on to win 5-4 over the Flyers and narrowly avoided collapsing.
Capitals head coach Peter Laviolette threw some subtle shade at the second line after the game. The trio of Daniel Sprong, Evgeny Kuznetsov, and Jakub Vrana was on the ice for two second-period Flyers’ goals.
By Ian Oland 6 months ago
Nick Jensen was seemingly damned by the Hockey Gods for a period of 877 days. Earlier this week though, Jensen broke the curse and scored his first goal since October 11, 2018. Now that drip-drop of offense is turning into a full-on stream.
Saturday, Jensen had his first multi-point game as a Capital, tallying a stunning goal and an assist on a grimy Carl Hagelin goal.
It got the attention of both his coach and one of the team’s offensive stars after the game.
Saturday night gave us our third Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers matchup in less than a week. The Caps were looking to sweep all three while the Flyers tried to salvage something from this mini-series.
Daniel Sprong stayed hot and opened the game’s scoring with a rebound try that found its way over Brian Elliott. Carl Hagelin extended the Caps lead to two as he also jammed home a rebound into the Philadelphia net.
James van Riemsdyk capitalized on some defensive miscues to get the Flyers on the board. Nick Jensen quickly responded with a snipe off the rush to restore the lead back to two. Nolan Patrick was the beneficiary of yet another mess of a shift in the Caps defensive zone and halved that lead again. Alex Ovechkin struck from his office on the power play to make sure the period ended with the Caps in control.
Nic Dowd with yet another goal against the Flyers to give the Caps their first three-goal advantage of the game. Shayne Gostisbehere added on to the high-scoring night. Claude Giroux with the goaltender pulled.
Caps beat Flyers 5-4!
By Chris Cerullo 6 months ago
Alex Ovechkin scored on a second-period power play to give the Capitals a 4-2 lead.
He has now hit double digits in goals (10) on the season and is now nearing Phil Esposito for sixth all-time on the NHL’s goals list.
By Ian Oland 6 months ago
Lars Eller was back and now he’s gone again.
After missing Thursday’s game due to a “family matter” and then returning just in time for warmups Saturday, Eller sustained a lower-body injury during the first period and will not return for the balance of the game.
By Ian Oland 6 months ago
Lars Eller has returned to the Capitals after leaving Philadelphia for DC and missing Thursday’s game due to a “family matter.”
Eller, who did not participate in the team’s morning skate on Saturday, returned in time for warmups, and according to the Capitals’ Mike Vogel, will play in the team’s rematch.
The Washington Capitals will wrap up a series with the Philadelphia Flyers tonight on the road. The Caps have won like seven of their last eight games, despite nearly blowing pretty much all of them. Washington will probably do that again on Saturday night, but they’ll be without one horse/moose/tiger.
Puck drop is at 7 PM and good mister Chris Cerullo will have your recap. Lucky you.
By Peter Hassett 6 months ago
