The Washington Capitals took the league’s best Tampa Bay Lightning to the cleaners in their own barn. The 6-3 victory was the Caps first in the three game series set all played in March where the Caps ended up 1-1-1.
The Caps out-shot the Ning 35 to 28.
By Chris Cerullo 8 months ago
TJ Oshie had his fifth two-goal game of the season Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Both of Oshie’s goals were first period strikes 5:15 apart, giving the Caps a 3-0 lead heading into the first intermission.
With 25 goals, Oshie is the second-leading goalscorer on the Capitals. It’s the third time he’s hit the 25-goal mark in his career.
Tamba Bay Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman collided with fellow Swede Carl Hagelin during Saturday night’s game against the Capitals. With nine seconds to go in the first period Hedman attempted to check Hagelin into the boards and his face made contact with Hagelin’s helmet.
Hedman appeared to recover and skated until the buzzer but did not return for the rest of the game.
Tampa head coach Jon Cooper told the media after the game that Hedman “got hit in a tough fashion” and would be re-evaluated. He did not rule out a concussion.
By Brennin Weiswerda 8 months ago
The Tampa Bay Lightning tried beating the Washington Capitals at hockey on Saturday night. When that didn’t work, they tried just physically beating up the Caps.
That didn’t work either.
It’s Tom Wilson time, y’all.
On the road at the tail end of a tough week and struggling against illness, the Washington Capitals nonetheless whipped the black-clad asses of the best team in the NHL, the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Nicky Backstrom kicked things off right with a rush goal to join the 20-goal club. Right on his heels was TJ Oshie, turning a second attempt into his 24th goal of the season, later followed by his 25th, a power-play tip-in early in the second period. Not to be outdone, Backstrom scored his second goal of the night. Amalie Arena was pretty bummed out at that point, but JT Miller’s late-period tip goal gave the Tampa crowd some life.
In the third period Tyler Johnson took advantage of a sloppy keep-in by Nick Jensen to score a breakaway goal. The Bolts surged after that, but then Alex Ovechkin, the Captain, the G.O.A.T., whispered nyet into the wind. He did what Ovis do: scoring his 50th and 51st goals of the season. (Kucherov got a garbage-time goal, no one cared.)
Caps win!
By Peter Hassett 8 months ago
Alex Ovechkin cannot stop breaking milestones.
Last season, Ovechkin was so close and yet so far from another milestone, scoring 49 goals. This season, Ovi was a man on a mission, and tonight against the Lightning, scored his 50th goal of the season, passing Brendan Shanahan for sole possession of 13th all-time on the NHL’s scoring list.
By Ian Oland 8 months ago
The Washington Capitals’ twenty-goal club has just added yet another new member as Nicklas Backstrom cracked open the scoring against Tampa on Saturday night.
Right winger Brett Connolly will miss Saturday night’s match-up against the Tampa Bay Lightning. He is the fourth Capitals player to miss playing time due to illness recently after Carl Hagelin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, and TJ Oshie.
Connolly missed the morning skate and head coach Todd Reirden said he would be a game-time decision.
By Brennin Weiswerda 8 months ago
Alex Ovechkin is one of the greatest goalscorers of all time and one of the major reasons why is his consistency.
Ovechkin has bucked regression due to aging, and as Japers’ Rink recently pointed out, the Russian machine has scored the same amount of goals in his first 540 games as he has in his last 540 games: 328.
Days after the Washington Capitals clinched their fifth straight playoff appearance, the team has shifted their focus to winning the division for the fourth straight year.
One would assume there’d be a lot of tension in the locker room with such high stakes games approaching.
You’d be completely wrong, which is why I’d like for you to see the following video.
