Washington Capitals: Top 25 goals of all-time

#6 Lars Eller goal at Columbus Blue Jackets first round Game 3

This goal is extremely important. This goal not only saved the Caps season but jump started the run towards greatness. He may have signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins recently, but we’ll always thank Lars Eller for this one.

The Caps entered this game down two games to none to the Columbus Blue Jackets, having dropped both games on home ice. That’s bad enough.

To make things worse, the game would not only require one but two overtimes. Ugh.

This was the most ugly goal on this list but it may have been the most important one ever. One future slide or any of the earlier goals mentioned might not have been possible without this one.

It trickled around in front of the net and Eller poked it in past Sergei Bobrovsky. The Caps didn’t look back the rest of that round. It was the textbook definition of a momentum and series changing goal.