[AP Recap – Game Summary – Event Summary – WashingtonCaps.com Postgame]
Question of the day: what’s the point in complaining about the power-play imbalance in a series if your team is only going to get one shot on goal in just over seven minutes of game time playing a man up?
On a night when their rookie goalie was shaky and the team had numerous chances to pick him up and bail him out – the way he has for them so many times already this spring, including in Game 3 of this series – the Caps couldn’t get it done, and so they head back to D.C. for the first game of a best-of-three series that gets underway tonight.
A few thoughts on the game:
Also not good? Alex Semin‘s performance. Float like a butterfly, sting like… eh, just float. And turn the puck over. And be minus-three on the night. But he and Nick Backstrom did ramp up their passing percentages with a nice game of pattycake on a power-play to end the second period.
We could go on and on breaking down last night’s game, but won’t. Last night is history and we’re back to square one: tied in the series with home ice advantage; back at the Verizon Center where the Caps have won four straight games and will face a goalie who has an .885 save percentage in this series (and a 3-5-0/3.75/.872 line on the season against the caps) – which makes the single power-play shot on goal last night all the more maddening, but which gives plenty of reason for hope.
Seriously. Two words: butt goal.
Win one game. Do it four three two times.