The Washington Capitals are red hot so we figured we'd end the two game stomp of the Philadelphia Flyers by looking at the good, the bad, and the ugly from the game.
We'll start with the ugly
The ugly: The second period Wednesday night
That lead almost disappeared Wednesday night and had that happened the Caps would've been in some serious trouble. The Caps did get their fifth win in a row while the Flyers cratered to 1-5-1.
Down the stretch the Caps had a 4-0 lead but that deficit was cut to 4-3 pretty quickly beginning with an outburst of shots in the second period. Still, the Caps did just enough to hang on for the win.
"There was a lot of, call them dicey situations there protecting that lead," Capitals coach Spencer Carbery explained to Bailey Johnson of The Washington Post. "But we dug in and did enough to get two points against a team that was pretty desperate tonight."
It was a slow start for both teams in the second night of the back to back. That is normal. Giving up 17 shots in one period alone isn't and that's what happened in the mid frame Wednesday night.