Evgeny Kuznetsov is one of the best stick handlers and skaters in the NHL. And, as the kids say, he has dangles for days. (Do the kids say that?)
Tuesday, against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kuzy skated into the Maple Leafs zone and took out Travis Dermott without even hitting him. As Kuzy went to his backhand and curled to the net, Dermott wiped out spectacularly as he tried to take away a pass.
Riding two goals from Alex Ovechkin, the Washington Capitals beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 in overtime, Tuesday night. Ovechkin scored in the third period as well as the game-winner in overtime.
After the game, the Capitals did not give the team’s hard hat award to Ovechkin. They gave it Ovechkin’s friend Alex Luey, a boy with incurable cancer.
The Washington Capitals have wrapped up their long road trip with a 4-0-1 record, adding that fourth win in the last game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. It took overtime yet again, but the Caps pulled out a 4-3 win featuring two goals from both Alex Ovechkin and John Carlson.
The Caps out-shot the Leafs 34 to 27 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 34 to 32.
By Chris Cerullo 3 years ago
With two goals scored against Toronto on Tuesday night, John Carlson‘s October points tally ends at 23, the second highest ever for a defender in the month.
So, not bad.
By Peter Hassett 3 years ago
The Caps have at last arrived at the end of their seemingly never ending road trip. It feels like the boys could be eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship they’ve been up there for so long. The final game of said trip came against the youthful Toronto Maple Leafs.
Andreas Johnsson got those Leafs on the board only forty seconds into the first period. John Carlson continued his October tear and tied the game at one and then gave the Caps a lead. Auston Matthews and his gross mustache tipped one home late in the second and slotted one home early in the third. Alex Ovechkin’s tenth of the year restored the tie.
Ovechkin overtime winner.
Caps beat Maple Leafs 4-3!
By Chris Cerullo 3 years ago
Alex Luey, a friend of the Capitals and especially Alex Ovechkin, attended the Leafs’ game to see his favorite team. According to the pregame broadcast, he got to read the starting lineup in the locker room.
Luey first met Ovechkin in 2017, when he was declared cancer-free. Luey’s cancer has returned and is untreatable.
By Brennin Weiswerda 3 years ago
Towards the end of the first period of the Capitals’ game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, center Nic Dowd had an awkward fall tangled in a group of players and stayed down for an extended period of time afterward.
Dowd was helped off the ice without putting any weight on his right leg and went directly to the Capitals locker room.
By Brennin Weiswerda 3 years ago
Great moments in team-building history can strike at any time. And before the Capitals game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Caps players needed some quick thinking and some ingenious teamwork to fix all the things they broke during a pregame bout of sewer ball.
The Capitals broke a light multiple times and then – whoops! The soccer ball got stuck in the ceiling of Scotiabank Arena.
By Ian Oland 3 years ago
The Washington Capitals are finishing up their road trip in Toronto this evening. Puck drop is at 7PM and you can catch all the action on NBC Sports Washington.
Here are your injuries. No surprises here.
By Elyse Bailey 3 years ago
Until winning a Stanley Cup, Alex Ovechkin was a lightning rod for criticism. National analysts looked for anything to explain the Capitals’ postseason flameouts from criticizing Ovechkin’s plus-minus and defense to the way he celebrated goals.
Now, an old wise hockey man with a very large Stanley Cup ring, Ovechkin was asked how Auston Matthews could become a better defensive player.
