Washington eventually won the game.
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Crosby took a hit to the head in Game 3 Monday in Pittsburgh and missed Game 4 Wednesday.
“You still don’t trust me?”
“.We basically said, ‘We’ve gotta get this.’ Everyone who scored was one of our top guys”. “I think that’s what they were tonight”. Trailing 2-1 after two periods, he made two hard saves on Pittsburgh’s Nick Bonino. Evgeny Kuznetsov followed that up less than five minutes later with the go-ahead goal and Alex Ovechkin increased Washington’s lead just 27 seconds later. Those star players that coach Barry Trotz was demanding more from emphatically answered the call. “I thought we’d been shooting too much and I think we were patient that way, waiting for good shots and it paid off”.
The Penguins’ best likely would include more scoring chances.
This season, writ large, is a pivotal moment for the franchise, the previous year of a closing window with the most talented team to surround stars Backstrom and Ovechkin.
The good news for the Pens is they might get Sidney back for game five after he skated in full gear during the team’s practice on May 4.
Need More winners against the spread? He finished with just one goal and one assist in 12 playoff games, one of the biggest disappointments in another early exit for Washington. “I understand the importance of making sure you’re good before you come back, and I have a lot of belief in our staff here that they’re going to do everything in their power to make sure I’m good when I come back”. “That’s why we practice all summer, that’s why we play 82 games for those moments”. “If what you’re doing isn’t working, you have to do different things”.
“Just like all players, you grow into certain roles with your team”, Trotz said. “You see how we respond”. “Everybody knew what they have to do”.
Washington Capitals center Lars Eller (20), from Denmark, celebrates as teammate Alex Ovechkin (8), from Russian Federation, scores a goal as Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (29) and teammates Olli Maatta (3), from Finland, .
“Right to the net”, Perry said. You’re not going to score the first goal every game. Entering Saturday night, the Penguins were undefeated when they had scored first in the postseason.
After almost 27 tense minutes of overtime, Perry collected a pass from Ryan Getzlaf and waited out a sprawling Cam Talbot to finish Anaheim’s third straight win – and the first home victory for either team in the series.
The Capitals came storming back in the third period with three even-strength goals.
Pittsburgh took an early lead at the 10:34 mark of the first period.
I have coached the team for years. “Maybe the guys didn’t know the goaltender was coming (out), but there was less than two minutes (to play) and (Ottawa) was down by a goal so they should expect it but maybe the guys got caught not knowing the goalie was out”. “Unfortunately we gave up some goals in the process of that”.
But imagine for a second that your franchise has lost eight of nine series’ against another team and hadn’t gotten out of the second round of the playoffs since the new millennium.
It was the first Capitals’ first goal from a bottom-six forward in the series.
Through 40 minutes, Saturday’s game had all the makings of another frustrating Capitals’ loss.
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“I talked to him, told him we wanted to change it up”. “And that was the intent, and today we did”. I think they find a way to live another day tonight.
