Carolina Hurricanes v. Washington Capitals
Series Tied 2-2
Game Recap:
The Washington Capitals return home for Game 5 looking to regain their series lead against the Carolina Hurricanes, and things would get chippy right away as Saku Maenalanen would take an ill advised roughig penalty when he would go after Tom Wilson after the whistle. After the Capitals failed powerplay attempt Carolina would get one of their own, but would lose it when Lucas Wallmark would be called for high sticking. On their second powerplay opportunity Nicklas Backstrom would would collect his own rebound and shoot it between Petr Mrazek’s legs to give the Capitals the 1-0 lead.
In the second period the Capitals would get themselves into penalty trouble as they would take three consecutive penalties (though the one on John Carlson for goaltender interference was laughable), however, the Capitals would be perfect on the penalty kill, and after they killed off the third penalty the Capitals would turn on the offense as Alex Ovechkin would come charging and throw a perfet pass to Nicklas Backstrom for his second goal of the game. Then minutes later brett Connolly would net his first goal of the playoffs to make it 3-0.
Going into the third period the Capitals would start with the continuation of their powerplay from the end of the second period, and the Capitals would continue their pressure and Tom Wilson would get Evgeny Kuznetsov’s rebound and get it past the defender and into the empty net with four seconds left on the powerplay to make it 4-0. Then on a breakaway Nic Dowd would be fouled and awarded a penalty shot which he would score on to make it 5-0. Then Lucas Wallmark would take a slashing penalty to which the Capitals would only need two seconds as Alex Ovechkin would rip it right off the faceoff to make it 6-0.
Lineups:
Carolina Hurricanes:
Nino Niederreiter — Sebastian Aho — Teuvo Teravainen
Warren Foegele — Jordan Staal — Justin Williams
Brock McGinn — Lucas Wallmark — Saku Maenalanen
Aleksi Saarela — Greg McKegg — Patrick Brown
Jaccob Slavin — Dougie Hamilton
Brett Pesce — Justin Faulk
Calvin de Haan — Trevor van Riemsdyk
Petr Mrazek
Curtis McElhinney
Scratched: Haydn Fleury
Injured: Andrei Svechnikov (concussion), Micheal Ferland (upper body), Jordan Martinook (lower body)
Washington Capitals:
Alex Ovechkin — Nicklas Backstrom — Tom Wilson
Jakub Vrana — Evgeny Kuznetsov — Carl Hagelin
Andre Burakovsky — Lars Eller — Brett Connolly
Chandler Stephenson — Nic Dowd — Devante Smith-Pelly
Jonas Siegenthaler — John Carlson
Dmitry Orlov — Matt Niskanen
Brooks Orpik — Nick Jensen
Braden Holtby
Pheonix Copley
Scratched: Christian Djoos, Travis Boyd, Dmitrij Jaskin, Ilya Samsonov
Injured: Michal Kempny (torn left hamstring), T.J. Oshie (upper body)
First Period:
Hurricanes Penalty – 1:08 – Saku Maenalanen 2 minutes for Roughing
Capitals Penalty – 4:41 – Brett Connolly 2 minutes for Hooking
Hurricanes Penalty – 5:42 – Lucas Wallmark 2 minutes for High Sticking
Capitals PPG – 7:33 – Nicklas Backstrom (4) from John Carlson (4) and Tom Wilson (2)
End of 1st – CAR – 0 WAS – 1
Shots 06 10
Faceoffs 07 12
Hits 14 19
PP 0/1 1/2
Second Period:
Capitals Penalty – 4:18 – Evgeny Kuznetsov 2 minutes for High Sticking
Capitals Penalty – 7:56 – John Carlson 2 minutes for Goaltender Interference
Capitals Penalty – 12:02 – Jonas Siegenthaler 2 minutes for Hooking
Capitals Goal – 14:21 – Nicklas Backstrom (5) from Alex Ovechkin (3)
Capitals Goal – 16:11 – Brett Connolly (1) from Alex Ovechkin (4) and Nicklas Backstrom (2)
Hurricanes Penalty – 19:07 – Sebastian Aho 2 minutes for Tripping
End of 2nd – CAR – 0 WAS – 3
Shots 21 17
Faceoffs 24 25
Hits 22 31
PP 0/4 1/2*
*3rd powerplay in progress
Third Period:
Capitals PPG – 1:04 – Tom Wilson (2) from Evgeny Kuznetsov (4) and John Carlson (5)
Penalty Shot Goal – 8:57 – Nic Dowd (1)
Hurricanes Penalty- 10:12 – Lucas Wallmark 2 minutes for Slashing
Capitals PPG – 10:14 – Alex Ovechkin (3) from Evgeny Kuznetsov (5) and Nicklas Backstrom (3)
Capitals Penalty – 17:29 – Nick Jensen 2 minutes for Hooking
End of 3rd – CAR – 0 WAS – 6
Shots 30 28
Faceoffs 30 36
Hits 32 47
PP 0/5 3/4
Next Up:
Game Six – WAS Leads Series 3-2
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