Vancouver Canucks

Abolish goalies: Canucks beat Caps 2-1 in shootout

The Washington Capitals and Vancouver Canucks gave us a hotly contested goalie duel on Saturday afternoon, which is a polite way of saying I wanted more goals and wild stuff to happen.

Jakub Vrana gave us an early, lonely goal, but Elias Pettersson answered on the power play to tie it up in the first period. The remainder of rego gave us no more goals as Markstrom and Holtby put on a clinic. The Caps got beaten down during overtime but got a few chances of their own before the buzzer. Those chances amounted to nothing, so here we go:

Shootout bullets:

• Oshie did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Boeser did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Kuznetsov did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Pettersson did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Ovechkin did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Leivo did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Vrana did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Miller did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Eller did not the biscuit in the basket, though we needed a replay to confirm it.
• Virtanen did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Gaudette did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Carlson did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Pearson did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Orlov did not put the biscuit in the basket.
• Horvat put the biscuit in the basket.

Caps lose in the shootout.

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