Plenty of airstrikes early in this contest! The glorious captain Alex Ovechkin got this one started with a how’s-your-daddy wrister on the 5-on-3 advantage to stake the Capitals to a 1-0 lead.
But Winnipeg’s Nikolaj Ehlers answered back quickly, gobbling up an unfathomably ill-conceived Lars Eller turnover to tie this one 1-1 after one.
Second period ahead…