📸: kurly from #crashers
The Washington Capitals snagged two badly needed standings points with a win over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night.
As we all expected, Matt Roy scored, blissfully un-marked by the Kings defense. Up-and-comer Alexander “Alex” Ovechkin followed up, one-timing a pass from Connor McMichael to give Washington a 2-0 lead after one period.
The Kings halved that lead in the second, with fellow old Anze Kopitar sneaking up on Charlie Lindgren during an LA power play.
The Caps held on in the third.
Caps win!
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- Alex Ovechkin scored goal 903, his fourth against ex-teammate Darcy Kuemper, his second goal in as many games, his third goal in the last four games, his sixth of the season. Like I said: Ovechkin has a decades-long history of making haters his waiters at the table of success. If you’re one of them, collect your Fell For It Again award in the comments.
- Matt Roy scored against his former team. That was the defender’s first goal since March 27, and it must have driven Jim Hiller nuts. No Kings jerseys for miles around him.
- Roy later took a puck to the face. He came back. If he didn’t have a visor, I think he would have broken some bones.
- The average age of goal scorers in the first 40 minutes was 36.
- Aliaksei Protas and Tom Wilson must have had four or five grade-A chances between them. For those two, but also for players lower in the lineup like Sourdif, the bounces just aren’t ever in their favor.
- Hendrix Lapierre and Nic Dowd swapped places. Dowd’s third line was in the Kings zone a lot. Lapierre’s fourth line was on the bench a lot.
- Alex Laferriere’s name sounds a lot like Hendrix Lapierre’s – if you have hearing damage from playing in garage bands as a teenager. I thought “Lappy” was on the ice a lot more than he was.
- I love Anze Kopitar. I wish we got to see him more than once or twice a season.
- The PP didn’t score on their one and a quarter opportunities. The PK allowed one goal on three man-down situations.
- From the Hiltzik Strategies out-of-town scoreboard: looks like the Buffalo Sabres will stumble into a victory over the Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers have the worst goaltending in the league; they need to make a trade yesterday. A team projected to record 100 standings points is on track for less than 90. They need to make a trade. They join Toronto in the league’s bottom ten by points percentage. Winnipeg and Montreal are the best Canadian teams right now.
- Gambling ads that show everyone winning their parlays are depressing.
Solid win. Would have been a rousing win if numbers 21 and 43 could hit the back of the net.
Those Oilers I was ragging on above are the Caps’ next opponents. Wednesday night might be the best chance to de-schneid several be-schneided Capitals players.