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What can we say about today’s game? The Capitals were hoisted by their own petard after letting the Rangers sneak early goals behind them multiple times throughout the game. The back-and-forth affair was hardly a good look for anyone involved, but the Capitals scrape by to get the two points with a 6-5 win over the Rangers in OT.
Here’s your Saturday afternoon plus/minus:
Plus: Nicklas Backstrom gets the monkey off his back and scores two to break a 12-game scoreless streak.
Minus: The number of the day is 21, which is incidentally the number of seconds it took Chris Kreider and Jimmy Vesey to score at the start of the first and third periods.
Here’s 10 more notes about the game:
And finally, this…
So that game sure did happen! We’d like to see some more defensive responsibility from our forwards and approximately 300% less early goals, but hey, I’ll take two points any day.