If you wanted to know what an absolutely embarrassing defensive effort looks like…well do I have the game for you. The Caps let the Islanders do quite literally whatever they wanted on the way to an 8-4 loss.
The Isles outshot the Caps 33 to 22 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 45 to 43.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
The New York Islanders throttled the Washington Capitals 8-4 at Nassau Coliseum Thursday night and it ended with fireworks.
At the buzzer, there was a gentlemanly throwdown between two of the teams’ leaders, Zdeno Chara and Matt Martin.
The fight led to an awkward showdown between both teams at center ice that thankfully didn’t materalize into a brawl.
By Ian Oland 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals. Woof. Pals, they got beat. They got beat something fierce, unto the edge of buckwilderness, by the New York Islanders. It was awful.
John Carlson scored one minute and one second into the cursed game. Jordan Eberle tied the game on a big rush goal that embarrassed Brenden Dillon and then Mathew Barzal took the lead on an even bigger rush goal that embarrassed Brenden Dillon even more.
Listen. There were three more goals in the first period. I’m not writing War and Peace here; just look at the stat sheet. One was Sprong’s.
Casey Cizikas scored against some bad Caps defense, and TJ Oshie scored a power-play goal deflecting in Ovi’s shot, and then Jordan Eberle scored against some bad Caps defense, and then John Carlson scored late in the second period to earn you nuggets or something.
Josh Bailey scored early in the third period, which meant we had no hope of watching a comeback, so it was just tedium from there until Barzal locked up his hat trick.
Caps lose by quite a lot.
By Peter Hassett 2 years ago
Congratulations to John Carlson who scored a historic goal against the New York Islanders, Thursday night.
Carlson scored the first McNugget Minute goal in Washington Capitals history. The Norris Trophy finalist scored with 59 seconds remaining in the second period. It was his second goal of the game.
By Ian Oland 2 years ago
Update: Ilya Samsonov returned to the game with 3:04 remaining in the first period.
Original story: After taking a head hit from TJ Oshie, Caps goalie Ilya Samsonov left Thursday’s game on Long Island during the very first shift.
By Peter Hassett 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals will look to get a lead and keep it this time as they take on another New York foe in the Islanders. Barry Trotz and the boys will host the Caps and I hope Alex Ovechkin scores fifty times.
They’ll drop the puck at 7 PM and best tweet Pete will have your recap.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
