Washington Capitals (37-21-7 81pts) v. New York Rangers (27-27-10 64pts)
Game Recap:
The Washington Capitals head to the Big Apple to take on the New York Rangers for an early afternoon matinee, but it would be the Rangers striking first as Chris Kreider would pick off a Dmitry Orlov pass and feed it to Ryan Strome for a quick 1-0 lead. However, the lead would not last long as Carl Hagelin would attack the net and recover his own rebound on a broken play to score his first goal as a Capital to tie the game. Then after some back and forth for the two teams, it would be Andre Burakovsky netting his ninth of the season to give the Capitals the 2-1 lead.
In a lackluster second period that featured a couple huge saves on both sides it would be Pavel Buchnevich to finally get one to tie the game at two for the Rangers.
In the third period not a lot of action would take place in what was a quick moving period. We would require extra time, but nothing would be decided in the five minute frame. Then in the shootout, it would be a controversial play by Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev that would allow Alex Ovechkin to be credited with the game winning shootout goal when he would throw his stick at Ovechkin to prevent the shot on goal.
Lineups:
Washington Capitals:
Alex Ovechkin — Evgeny Kuznetsov — Tom Wilson
Jakub Vrana — Nicklas Backstrom — T.J. Oshie
Andre Burakovsky — Lars Eller — Brett Connolly
Carl Hagelin — Nic Dowd — Travis Boyd
Michal Kempny — John Carlson
Dmitry Orlov — Matt Niskanen
Brooks Orpik — Nick Jensen
Braden Holtby
Pheonix Copley
Scratched: Dmitrij Jaskin, Chandler Stephenson, Christian Djoos
New York Rangers:
Chris Kreider — Mika Zibanejad — Jimmy Vesey
Vladislav Namestnikov — Ryan Strome — Jesper Fast
Brendan Lemieux — Lias Andersson — Pavel Buchnevich
Brendan Smith — Brett Howden — Filip Chytil
Marc Staal — Tony DeAngelo
Brady Skjei — Kevin Shattenkirk
Libor Hajek — Neal Pionk
Alexandar Georgiev
Henrik Lundqvist
Scratched: , Fredrik Claesson, Connor Brickley, Boo Nieves
First Period:
Rangers Goal – :45 – Ryan Strome (11) from Chris Kreider (22)
Capitals Goal – 2:03 – Carl Hagelin (3) from Lars Eller (22) and Brooks Orpik (6)
Capitals Goal – 10:02 – Andre Burakovsky (9) from Nic Doyd (11) and Travis Boyd (13)
Capitals Penalty – 14:48 – Nick Jensen 2 minutes for Hooking
Rangers Penalty – 15:58 – Anthony DeAngelo 2 minutes for Hooking
Rangers Penalty – 18:29 – Filip Chytil 2 minutes for High Sticking
End of 1st – WAS – 2 NYR – 1
Shots 09 11
Faceoffs 07 11
Hits 11 10
PP 0/2 0/1
Second Period:
Rangers Goal – 14:20 – Pavel Buchnevich (13) from Filip Chytil (11) and Anthony DeAngelo (20)
Rangers Penalty – 18:54 – Anthony DeAngelo 2 minutes for Hooking
End of 2nd – WAS- 2 NYR- 2
Shots 29 18
Faceoffs 17 20
Hits 19 22
PP 0/3 0/1
Third Period:
Capitals Penalty – 7:02 – Tom Wilson 2 minutes for Kneeing
Rangers Penalty – 15:46 – Brendan Smith 2 minutes for Hooking
End of 3rd – WAS – 2 NYR – 2
Shots 37 22
Faceoffs 21 29
Hits 29 31
PP 0/3 0/2
OT:
N/A
End of OT – WAS – 2 NYR – 2
Shots 39 24
Faceoffs 21 32
Hits 29 32
PP 0/4 0/2
Shootout:
NYR – Kevin Shattenkirk – Goal
WAS – TJ Oshie -Goal
NYR – Mika Zibanejad – Save
WAS – Evgeny Kuznetsov – Save
NYR – Anthony DeAngelo – Goal
WAS – Nicklas Backstrom – Goal
NYR – Filip Chytil – Save
WAS – Alex Ovechkin – Goal
WAS – 3 NYR – 2
Next Up:
Washington (38-21-7 83pts) @ Philadelphia (32-26-8 72pts)
NY Rangers (27-27-5 68pts) @ Dallas (33-27-5 71pts)
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