[AP Recap – Game Summary – Event Summary – WashingtonCaps.com Postgame]
Early in the second period, the goal light behind Jose Theodore was malfunctioning and flashed for a couple of minutes as the game went on. As the stanza continued, the light would be turned on three more times, but this time the malfunction was on the ice.
In a game that wasn’t televised anywhere and was played in front of the smallest (and quitest) home crowd of the year (a still-impressive 16,792, though there were nowhere near that many fans in the building), the Caps lost their first VC game in regulation on the season, and it wasn’t as close as the score might indicate. A few notes on the game:
The bottom line is that the Caps have lost a second straight game to a mediocre team, and seem to be out of gas and certainly out of depth of NHL talent. They need to get healthy and fast, or they’ll continue to watch winnable games and the two points that go with them slip (or bounce, if we’re talking about the VC ice) away.
Elsewhere ‘Round the Rinks:
Oskar Osala is the AHL’s Rookie of the Month for November…. You guys know I love me some Bear Tracks…. Nottingham’s Johan Molin is at long last getting the recognition he deserves for being “just like Ovechkin.”
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