Game 36: Here Comes the Story of Beating The Hurricanes
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
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4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Caps victoriously return to the ice in D.C. by the final of 3-1 over Carolina after a few days off. The guys go over the win including the strong play in net by Braden Holtby, questionable officiating ,and the latest on Matt Niskanen after his crash into the boards.
Rob, Alan, & Brian close the conversation on Alex Ovechkin being voted as one of the All Star Game captains (26:01).
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| 0:00.0 | When the Caps played the Cains in Raleigh, 13 days ago, they gave up three power play goals and a shorty. |
| 0:06.3 | Special teams is a big issue, Alan. |
| 0:08.1 | In this game, Caps kill off three power plays in the first period, then score a power play |
| 0:13.5 | goal snapping an 0-19 drought. |
| 0:16.2 | Huge turnaround for special teams. |
| 0:18.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:19.3 | You know, the biggest thing, they took advantage of a very bad power play on the road for the teams? Absolutely. You know, the biggest thing they took advantage of a very |
| 0:21.5 | bad power play on the road for the Carolina Hurricanes. Coming into the game, there were seven and 50, |
| 0:26.7 | seven goals on 50 attempts, 14 percent. And they made sure that they applied a lot of pressure on the |
| 0:32.3 | half wall tonight, got the clears, won their battles, blocked out so hope he could see the shot, but it was about |
| 0:38.3 | applying good solid pressure tonight, and I thought the penalty kill was spectacular. |
| 0:43.3 | And then the power play made a great adjustment to get T.J. Osce's goal, and it was a little |
| 0:48.0 | bit of an audible for Ovechkin, but special teams were big tonight. Details were big in this |
| 0:52.7 | game. Last time they played, face-off details weren't good. The special teams were horrendous. And tonight, you know, it wasn't just all about Ovi. It was all about the team being very consistent in all aspects of the game. Brian McNally, one more time we could say that Brayden Alopee might have been the best Caps player on the ice and |
| 1:11.1 | that is becoming a reoccurring theme and that is a good thing. Best goalie in the |
| 1:16.0 | league since November 6th Rob leads in save percentage leads in goals against |
| 1:20.5 | average I think he came into the night 9 3 I believe so just kind of building |
| 1:25.9 | on that good steady play know, no bad goals. |
| 1:29.4 | Obviously, Carolina got one, you know, relatively late, but otherwise, Braden played really well. |
| 1:34.0 | And Phoenix Copley has been doing a passable imitation of Philip Grubauer from the last couple |
| 1:39.8 | of years. That's a strength now. And it's, uh, those guys are playing well, giving them a chance every |
| 1:45.3 | night. The caps win 6-5 in Raleigh. They win 3-1 at Capitol 1 Arena. I'm Rob Carlin. The |
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