Daniel Sedin put the visiting Northwesterners up 1-0 early, cashing in for the Canucks on a 5-on-3 power play.
But then, with the net teeter-tottering on its moorings and goalie Jacob Markstrom’s head, John Carlson scored the strangest goal I’ve ever seen to tie it 1-1.
And mere moments later, Great Dane Lars Eller sniped home a bullet to make it 2-1 Capitals at the intermission.
Second period ahead…