Sammy’s successful return: Caps defeated Devils 3-2

Sammy’s successful return: Caps defeated Devils 3-2

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Washington Capitals advanced a little in terms of good play and seemed to continue on that path when facing the New Jersey Devils for the second time in two days. Could they complete the weekend scan?

Mikhail Maltsev opened the scoring with a wrister who jumped from Dmitry Orlov’s bat and overtook Ilya Samsonov on the short side. Jakub Vrana has two consecutive goals after firing his own rebound to tie the game in one. Nicklas Backstrom, in search of his 700th career assist, hit the target with his own shot. Yegor Sharangovich hit one on Samsonov’s body to tie the game once again.

Alex Ovechkin passed over an unbelieving MacKenzie Blackwood to restore Caps’ lead and ended up being the winner.

Caps defeat Devils 3-2!

  • In addition to Devils’ unfortunate and dribbling goalkeeper, I thought Caps dominated that period and probably had the misfortune of not achieving three more goals, like yesterday. I was particularly impressed with the start of the Dmitry Orlov and Justin Schultz pair how these two really pulls the pace offensively from the backend and seems to have found great chemistry.
  • The birthday person! Jakub Vrana showed Peter Laviolette that he shouldn’t put it on the bench when he pockets his second in two games to put the Caps on the board. Happy 25th to Snek.
  • Not a ton of punctuation in the first frame, so I’m going to use this marker to tell you, Disney Plus subscribers out there, that you need to watch WandaVision, as this show is amazing and the end of the first season is just a few days away. distance (March 5).
  • The second was another period that I thought the Caps got the better of. Much slower pace than the first, with much more whistles, but they continued the trend of giving New Jersey absolutely nothing in terms of high-danger opportunities. Over the course of 40 minutes, the Devils recorded only one chance of that five against five for the Capitals eight.
  • THE Alex Ovechkin The goal seemed inevitable since the fall of the puck, as the Great Eight definitely had his legs on today and his shooting gloves. At the end of the second, the captain of Caps already had ten individual shots, six in the net, one goal (his 713th) and three individual goal chances.
  • As president of Nick Jensen fan club, I must admit that your partnership with Zdeno Chara I did not pass my eyesight test in this game. Chara seemed slow to react to some of Devils’ advances and Jensen was struggling hard to cover his partner. You would think that the great Zee could rest with his back to each other, but I don’t think so.
  • Shout out to NBC Sports Washington for things before the game they’re doing this season, bringing Bruce Boudreau and ex-Caps to talk about the disc before each game. This schedule has been a lot of fun to watch and, as someone who hadn’t watched the coverage before the game for probably more than five years, it got me in tune. Alan May stirring the pot and burning Ian constantly is also a pleasure.
  • The Caps went full speed again on the third and I really wish they would stop this trend. They had a single five-on-five shot attempt for about 12 minutes of the third.
  • Ilya SamsonovWashington’s return to the Washington cage was difficult. The first goal against was a difficult change of pace, but you still don’t want to see him beat an opponent like that. The second goal against simply cannot happen. He seemed to calm down and had a great third period, albeit on the way to victory.
  • This penalty call in Tom Wilson on the third it was a complete joke. “Cutting”, by the way. The referee called as if he had just discovered life on Jupiter too.

Caps have a few days off before two in a row against Boston Bruins, while both teams fight at the top of the NHL’s Eastern Division. Two great games.

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