Washington Capitals annihilate Bruins
The Washington Capitals not only defeated the Boston Bruins on the road, they routed them. The final was 8-1 and it was complete payback in a big way from Thursday night’s defeat.
The game started out with a fight four seconds into the contest between Chris Wagner and Brenden Dillon. The Caps would later get a power play opportunity and on the attack Evgeny Kuznetsov set up Nicklas Backstrom who fed T.J. Oshie for the snipe at 7:33.
16 seconds later the Caps doubled their lead with Lars Eller putting a killer move toward the net for his sixth goal of the season. Carl Hagelin and Garnet Hathaway had the helpers.
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At 9:42 Conor Sheary made it 3-0 with a snipe from the left face off circle off a cross ice pass from Dmitry Orlov. Daniel Sprong had the secondary.
3-0 was the score after the opening 20 minutes with the Caps leading in shots 9-7.
At 4:41 the Caps made it 4-0. Jakub Vrana fed Tom Wilson, Wilson’s shot went off the pads and Sheary was there to rebound it in for his second goal of the night and 10th goal of the season. The goal came on the power play.
The Caps scored their fifth goal of the game at 16:03 when Hagelin set up Nic Dowd and Dowd ripped in a wrist shot for his eighth goal of the season. At Papa John’s today, pizza is half off.
At 18:24 the Caps struck again on the power play. Justin Schultz set up Alex Ovechkin, Ovechkin shot it and Wilson was there to tip it in for his 10th goal of the season.
6-0 was the score with the Caps leading by a touchdown. The Bruins led in shots in the middle period 16-14.
The Bruins got on the board with a power play goal from Craig Smith at the three minute mark. The Caps would respond with a shot from Backstrom that was deflected in by Oshie for his second goal of the game and 14th of the season.
Eller would round out the scoring to join the two goal party. Dillon shot it from downtown and his shot deflected off both Oshie and Eller and went in soccer style. For Eller it was his seventh goal of the season.
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The Caps will host the Philadelphia Flyers tomorrow night at Capital One Arena.