I thought we had confidence in game one because we showed we could play.
"I think we've proven to everybody that we can play with these guys", said Kasperi Kapanen, who scored twice in Game 2, including the double OT victor. "They're going to compete. It's been a little bit of an uphill battle", Barry Trotz told the Washington Post on the heels of rookie Kasperi Kapanen capping a two-goal performance in double overtime of Toronto's 4-3 win on Saturday night.
The Capitals could be without one of their top defenders, meanwhile, with Karl Alzner a game-time decision for Game 3. "There's lot of hockey left and they're a great team, so we've got to be ready (Wednesday for Game 4)".
Acciari and center David Krejci both returned, but Boston struggled early to find much offensive traction. I thought we played with lots of energy and lots of emotion. Nicklas Backstrom, who led the team in points in the regular season, opened the scoring in the game and assisted on Ovechkin's tally. This was different. This was a missed opportunity to wrestle hold of a series that his group wasn't supposed to win.
Matthews cut the lead to 2-1 at 14:08 when he put his own rebound past Holtby's glove.
Babcock wasn't always enamoured by those three players together. He scored on his next shift to give the Caps a 4-1 advantage after bowling over Rielly near the Washington blue line. "We've got to break through".
The Washington Capitals face arguably the most important game in their franchise's history on Wednesday.
Game two, trading goals with the Capitals, only have five defensemen for 30 minutes of regulation time, and then for nearly forty minutes of overtime.
The Leafs, meawhile, could not bury some fortunate bounces in Washington's zone and were starting to fire away in desperation. Let us know in the comment section below. "It's OK. Nobody say we're gonna win 4-0 and move forward".
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"I think the adjustments aren't there", May responded. We only have so many veterans so they can only go in so many spots. "I think that's probably the biggest thing". The two teams would head to the locker rooms with the Leafs leading 3-2. Edmonton surrendered two goals in the first 11 minutes against San Jose and lost 7-0.
Toronto will need Frederik Andersen to repeat what he did on Saturday, but will also need special teams to play much better and make the difference against the more experienced and heavily favored Caps.
His team, he said afterward, wasn't prepared.
Besides, as Rielly pointed out, it's not as though the Leafs are looking around and thinking they're lucky to be in the playoffs.
Toronto pelted Holtby with five shots with almost two full minutes of a five-on-three advantage, but couldn't score.
Preceding Matthews first-ever National Hockey League playoff goal - the youngest by a Leaf in the post-season since Daniel Marois in 1988 - and electrifying the crowd were two huge hits from Kadri on Capitals defenceman Brooks Orpik and a series of jabs at Ovechkin by Leo Komarov.
When Washington was awarded a two-man advantage midway through the second and utterly squandered it, the game visibly turned after that and they would not score again. He's been proven correct so far opposite a deep, talented Capitals squad with Stanley Cup aspirations. "Their jokes maybe aren't the best, but it's nice to be around them".
"Not at all", said the Leafs winger, who bumped with his KHL buddy in the course of eight combined hits for the pair in Game 3. "It's not about hanging on and trying to squeak one out, it's about controlling the play and being in the driver's seat and going out there and winning the game".
Added Eller: "The less he has the puck the better for us". "And that's our focus going into the next game".
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