"We've got to make sure we establish other aspects of our game more consistently - spending time in the offensive zone, establishing a grind game, forcing teams to have to make plays under pressure with our puck pursuit up the ice".
We'll wait to see how that Blues-Predators series plays out, but there isn't a team almost as complete as the one the Penguins are dispatching with seeming ease. "We're obviously going to get a very good player and hopefully in years, we'll look back on this as a turning point for us". Thus far in the 2017 playoffs, the winger already has 11 points with seven assists and four goals, two of which came Saturday night.
If the Penguins finish off the Capitals (does anyone really think they'll lose four of the next five games, with the next two at home?), they are staring at the possibility of a final four with Ottawa, Edmonton and Nashville or St. Louis. They have. Now they have a shot at the kind of two-games-to-none lead that could drag the Caps' ghouls and ghosties out of the subconscious.
"When are they gonna blow the whistle?" The Bruins went 18-8-1 after Cassidy replaced Claude Julien on February 7, a run that allowed them to make the playoffs for the first time since 2014.
Desperate times called for a players-only meeting in the Washington Capitals' locker room after they fell behind 2-0 in their second-round playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Patric Hornqvist assisted on both.
The Capitals' captain has accomplished nearly everything imaginable in a dozen pro seasons: three Hart Trophies as MVP, 558 regular-season goals and virtually every important franchise scoring record.
In a high-profile showdown of Crosby and Alex Ovechkin, Washington's captain also scored and Evgeny Kuznetsov had the goal that tied it in the third. "Why would you think otherwise?" If Pittsburgh's defense does just enough to quiet the Capitals' talented scorers as it did Thursday night, it's going to be pretty hard for Washington to claim its first playoff win over the Pens since 1994, especially as the series hits the road.
Capitals coach Barry Trotz knows that in chasing matchups sometimes "you allow the visiting coach to control your bench".
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Here are three things we learned in the NHL Saturday.
"I thought some of the goals, he wasn't as sharp as he can be for us". The Pittsburgh Penguins are averaging 3.4 goals per game and are scoring on 23.1 percent of their power plays. After a Fleury save, the rebound went to T.J. Oshie, who appeared to have a big opening.
One of the biggest parts of the Capitals' playoff campaigns year after year is the goaltending.
They trailed 1-0 in the series and faced a 3-1 deficit going into the third period of Game 2.
There is too much failure, too many disappointments.
For now, Hextall envisions keeping the second pick but wouldn't rule out trading down if the right offer was there.
Reminded that he said late Saturday night that it was too early to know who'd be in goal, Trotz added: "There's no question he's our goaltender. That's where your goalie needs to come up with a save", Holtby said. "That's how it goes". This year, their season opened in Pittsburgh, and they were forced to watch the Penguins raise their Stanley Cup banner.
Ovechkin pulled the Capitals within 2-1 when he a took pass from Lars Eller just inside the blue line, skated to the top of the circle and fired a short-side wrister over Fleury's shoulder with 1:43 left in the period. "We make hockey our first priority and focus a little better than we did on this trip", he said then. Kevin Shattenkirk, the trade-deadline acquisition who was supposed to put Washington over the top, was beaten for a shorthanded goal by Pittsburgh's Matt Cullen and took a silly delay penalty that led to a Penguins power-play score.
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