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After Game 3 on Sunday, the Oilers grabbed a 2-1 series lead with a 1-0 win. "It's a lot of fun", Toronto coach Mike Babcock said. We've been to overtime four times, it's a good competitive series and we believe we still have a chance to win.
"That's what we're going to do".
Observers of the first-round series in the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs had been starting to wonder what had become of the Capitals team that won the Presidents' Trophy during the regular season.
If the Leafs prevail, it's back to the Verizon Center for the deciding game on Tuesday.
With several teams already moving on in the opening round of the National Hockey League playoffs, the Washington Capitals are surely lamenting the fact that they are still battling for the right to move on. Hopefully they come out on top on Friday and transfer all the pressure onto Toronto.
It was the most experienced Capitals forward that administered the dagger, which conveniently lends itself to the notion that despite the spirit of the young Maple Leafs, Washington's know-how would prove to be the difference. "Right now we going back to play in Toronto and try to win there". "We weren't prepared. We weren't very good".
The Leafs, who made their best start of the series by keeping the play mostly in the Washington zone for the first 10 minutes, escaped a jam a few minutes before Kadri's penalty.
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There wasn't much bad blood between the clubs through the first four games. Oshie has points in each game this series.
Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8), of Russian Federation, lies on the ice after he was injured during the first period of Game 5 in an NHL Stanley Cup hockey first-round playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Friday, April 21, 2017, in Washington.
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Despite the witness' statement and what an officer observed to be bumps and abrasions on the victim, the charge was dismissed. Muhammad told police he noticed the driver was Latino and the passenger was White, and four rounds into the passenger side.
Theodore had an impressive two goals and three assists in the series, while Montour logged important minutes in key situations as well. He landed on his left left and was down on the ice for several minutes and had to be helped to the dressing room.
Late in the second period, Kadri was slashed on the arm by Ovechkin and on the back of the knee by Matt Niskanen - basically at the same time, sending him to the ice. Ovechkin was okay after all.
"You take them as they come, just trying to work hard", Wilson said. I thought it was okay. But he came back.
Why do you think your power play has gotten away from you and not been as successful as it was during the season?
"I think we've figured out how we have to play and we've just got to do it for longer", Trotz said. That's the beauty of the playoffs. I thought they were quicker today. There might have been grounds to call Kadri for clipping, which is when a player lowers his body and throws it at or below the knees of an opponent.
Mediocre and less than ordinary.
Once again, three periods were not enough in the evenly matched series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Washington Capitals.
A Braden Holtby save on James van Riemsdyk during a Toronto power play in the third period was large. Cherry said. "And he gets a penalty, and they get a goal".
"We're not coming with the same kind of pace on entries and we're going to have to win some faceoffs".
"When they're something you don't like or something you think is a little dirty", said TJ Oshie, "you want to respond with a goal", which he did on the ensuing power play. Tight-lipped about the timeline, coach Barry Trotz said Alzner is day to day. "They do a pretty good job of staying four guys tight and we have to outnumber them at the net".
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