Plus: The new-look line of Anthony Mantha, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Tom Wilson teamed up for a pretty sweet goal to break the shutout, so…that’s cool.
Minus: As a road team, your first goal is to take away the hometown crowd. That’s not going to happen when you give up not just one but two goals in the first five minutes of the game, like the Caps did tonight.
Key Moment: This goal, just 1:37 into the first period, immediately took the wind out of the Caps’ sails…
Caps Player of the Game: Anthony Mantha got back to his scoring ways with his third two-goal game of the season.
Final Thoughts: Weird game. The Caps didn’t exactly play badly; they just made too many mistakes (which obviously means they didn’t exactly play well, either) and the Wild capitalized on all of them. Despite a late – like, really late – push, they just weren’t able to overcome all of that.