Top 3 Capitals studs against Canadiens

What a night Washington Capitals fam. It was a big win and there were six goals scored in the victory. It's time to salute the top 3 studs from the win. Those who rose to the occassion and protected the District.

#3 Connor McMichael

Shoutout to Connor McMichael for how hot he's been lately and with nine points in his last seven games with five goals and four assists. After a laackluster second period, McMichael struck with a backhander at 4:21 with help from Trevor van Riemsdyk and tom Wilson.

McMichael told the media via Bailey Johnson of The Washington Post:

We're just putting it all together as a group. There's a lot of unselfish guys. You see a lot of guys laying their bodies on the line to block pucks. ..Guys are just doing whatever it takes to win, and we're having fun. We all love each other, so it's been a lot of fun."

Through nine games this season, the Caps have scored four or more goals six times which was only accomplshed last season 24 times out of 82 games. But more importantly hockey and sports are fun in this town once again. In the end that's all that matters.

#2 Alex Ovechkin

Alex Ovechkin notched his fifth goal of he season late in the game to send the Halloween crowd home happy. He also assisted on a goal from Aliaksei Protas prior to that. He also had an assist on the Tom Wilson power play goal to get things started for the Caps in the second period.

Ovechkin has scored three goals in his last two games and needs 37 goals to bypass Wayne Gretzky for first on the NHL's all time goals list. The outburst came in the second period but Spencer Carbery would end up giving credit to the third period.

In a highly competitive environment, these guys want to win. They look at each other and go, 'Oh yes, this is how we've got to do it. Cut the crap, let's go.' And that's exactly what you saw was our character in our group come through in that third period. We weren't just going to let the game slip away.