Washington Capitals: Three Stars Of The Game – Oshie Fights Back
By CJ Witt
T.J. Oshie
Again, we’ll be going with someone who has zero points on the board, and his fancy stats are average at best. But he did some good things for the game, was one of the better Capitals in the advanced stats area and potentially was a big reason why Washington woke up in the second period.
It was the fight late in the second period that got the Capitals to start playing with some energy. Just a few minutes of play later the Caps went from 0-2 down to tied 2-2. Sometimes it’s not a goal or a great offensive play that turns things around. It can be a hit or fight. Oshie did the latter and here we are. Getting one of our stars of the game.
Like Ovechkin he had zero points for the game. He did have a nice shootout goal vs Vasilevskiy though, Russian goaltenders must just despise this guy.
He had 50% Corsi rating for the night having 10 shot attempts for and 10 against while on the ice. The team also had 2 chances for and 3 against with 77 on the ice.
Maybe the Capitals would have figured it out anyways. But Oshie’s fight seemed to spark the team and that was possibly a reason the team took this game to overtime. For that, I think Oshie deserves to be one of our stars for this one.