Caps avoid sweep as Ovi comes to the rescue
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Something in the 2nd period of this game happened, a fire was lit under the Caps skates and it paid off, with a 3-2 win to keep their season alive. Jordan Giorgio, JJ Regan and Nick Ashooh got together to discuss what they saw from the most important game of the Caps season so far, and to look forward to Game 5 and the possibility of Washington doing the impossible in getting out of the 3-0 hole they have put themselves in. The crew goes over a 2nd period for the ages, how Ovi and his beautiful goatee saved the day and if this new fire that has been lit under the Caps skaters can will them to another victory on Thursday.
Also you will here Head Coach Todd Rierden's thoughts after the win and how much confidence he has in his squad going into a crucial Game 5.
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| 0:00.0 | So if we can, just before we begin, let's all just take a deep breath and out, because what a series of events. |
| 0:17.0 | An emotional roller coaster is what that was. |
| 0:25.6 | And after the worst first period of hockey we've seen thus far in this series, |
| 0:29.7 | the Capitals turn things around, force a game five. |
| 0:30.5 | How about it? |
| 0:33.7 | After a three to two win over the New York Islanders, |
| 0:35.9 | Brendan Dillon said during intermission, |
| 0:39.4 | it took them 10 periods to get going. But here they are. |
| 0:43.0 | Alive and well, JJ, with the next challenge right around the corner. |
| 0:48.7 | You know, the crazy thing about this series is how the team that scores the first goal is almost setting themselves up for a letdown. It seems that instead of gaining the momentum from |
| 0:53.5 | scoring the first goal, |
| 0:54.8 | it's the team who responds afterwards that rolls into that momentum. The Capitals took the first |
| 1:00.0 | goal in game one, the first goal in game two. Once the I-Unders started scoring, they never |
| 1:04.8 | looked back. And then in game three, I-owners took the first goal, weren't able to cut off the |
| 1:10.6 | caps. Caps came back to forced overtime, at least. And then in this game, the I-ers took the first goal, weren't able to cut off the caps. Caps came back to |
| 1:11.8 | force overtime at least. And then in this game, the Islanders scored the first two goals |
| 1:15.6 | and weren't able to build on that momentum. And then the moment Kuznetsov scored that first goal, |
| 1:21.4 | you saw the caps were a different team. And now it's, they've lived to find another day. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm looking at my notes here from the first period. |
| 1:31.3 | And the first thing I wrote down says, word for word, caps look ready to go home. |
| 1:37.3 | That was it. That was my analysis of that. |
| 1:41.3 | And that's how it looked in the first period. |
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