Washington Capitals: Top 25 goals of all-time

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Joel Ward, Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) /

#18 Joel Ward buzzer beater at Rangers 2015

This was an insane game. We were blessed and somewhat cursed with Washington Capitals vs. New York Rangers playoff series. Cursed meaning it was hard to stop prime Henrik Lundqvist.

But Game 1 got the Caps off the right foot thanks to some puck luck.

Puck luck? For the Caps?

Yes. I know.

At 18:13 Alex Ovechkin struck on the power play to give the Caps a 1-0 lead. Late in the third at 15:21 the Rangers tied it on a goal from Jesper Fast. It looked like overtime was on the horizon.

That is until Joel Ward was in the right place and the right time to poke the puck in off a feed from Alex Ovechkin behind the net right at the buzzer so we wouldn’t have to worry about overtime for once.

Joel Ward really was him. Hope he’s doing well.

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