![]() ![]() They’ll meet the Bruins again later this month, Dec. The Capitals’ next three games are all away from home, starting Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning. “And especially like that too, I think Ovi came on the far post or the middle there too, so it’s kinda hard to protect everyone out there … Yeah, a hell of a shot.” “Yeah, a little bit, but he’s pretty mobile back there,” Backstrom said. I was pretty frustrated and it was nice to at least find the back of the net,” Carlson said.īut Backstrom was a tad surprised by how open the Bruins left Carlson, who leads all NHL defensemen in goals and assists. “I was just trying to shoot it in the net. But Carlson answered less than two minutes later when Nicklas Backstrom skated behind the net and fed him in the right circle for a fierce one-timer. ![]() Let’s touch on some of the reasons why the Bruins won Game 5, and eliminated the Capitals, in. This felt closer than a 4-1 series score, but that’s how it ended up. After dropping Game 1 in overtime, the Bruins won four straight games to eliminate the Capitals. Sean Kuraly tied it in the third by redirecting a long Torey Krug shot. Beyond Rask, other key Bruins came through where Capitals’ top stars could not. You just try to put it upstairs with a couple sticks on you, so happy it went in.” It felt pretty lucky for the puck to squeak through there. I had to check my skates, make sure there wasn’t a 13 under there,” Oshie joked. “I felt like I had (Jakub Vrana’s) wheels on the bench. Oshie said in the locker room that he had yet to watch a replay of the goal, which appears destined for his career retrospective. Shortly thereafter, the 32-year-old beat defenseman Connor Clifton with a right-to-left move and popped in a backhander to move to 13 goals on the year. His first shot flew off the crossbar, but he put the rebound past Jaroslav Halak. First, with Chris Wagner in the box, Carlson fed Oshie a pass in the slot. Oshie’s goals arrived early in the second period. “Having two talented guys in there and how they go about their business and the responsibilities they each have, letting us know that that was a challengeable call, to me that’s a major deciding factor in tonight’s game.” I think that had a huge, huge impact on the game,” Reirden said. “I don’t mention this when I’m talking about my staff, is my challenge tonight. It was Pastrnak’s 26th tally of the year.īoston initially took a 2-0 lead, but the Capitals challenged the play looking for offside and successfully overturned it - Jake DeBrusk entered the offensive zone just ahead of the puck.Ĭoach Todd Reirden praised video coaches Brett Leonhardt and Tim Ohashi for making the crucial save, the second successful overturned goal for the Capitals in three games. Washington came out firing, possessing the puck for most of the first five minutes, but the Bruins drew first blood when the NHL’s leading goal scorer David Pastrnak sniped a puck over Holtby’s shoulder on an odd-man rush. ![]()
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