Washington Capitals (38-21-7 83pts) v. Philadelphia Flyers (32-26-8 72pts)
Game Recap:
The Washington Capitals would continue their road trip with a short train trip to Philadelphia to take on the Flyers, and in the early stages of the game both teams would share chances in a track style back and forth, but it would be the Capitals striking first as Alex Ovechkin would feed the puck to Tom Wilson while on his knees for Wilson’s 19th goal of the season. Then later in the period while going down the wing Brett Connolly would rip a shot past Brian Elliott that would seem to have hit the crossbar, but during the TV timeout the play would be reviewed in Toronto and deemed a goal as Connolly got the puck past Elliott and hit the goal cam with the puck completely crossing the line thus giving the Capitals a 2-0 lead going into the second intermission.
Hot start.#CapsFlyers FIRST INTERMISSION UPDATE presented by @CareFirst : #Caps 2 – Flyers 0 #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/IrHLhteF6E
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
To start the second period the Capitals would bring the domination as early in the period while on their first powerplay of the game it would be an Ovechkin snipe from the circles that would go five hole on Elliott. Then mere minutes later it would be Andre Burakovsky with a beautiful snipe to chase Elliott from the net and bring in Cam Talbot, but the Capitals would welcome him with that same domination as Nicklas Backstrom would net the first shot against Talbot to make this a 5-0 game. The Capitals would primarily control the play the rest of the period, but with 11.8 seconds left in the period Philippe Myers would score his first career goal to get the Flyers on the board.
Heck of a period. #CapsFlyers 2ND INTERMISSION UPDATE presented by @CareFirst : #Caps 5 – Flyers 1 #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/ALqFOk0gWm
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
To start the third period it would be the Flyers to get on the board ten seconds into the period as Claude Giroux would net his 20th of the season. The Flyers would pick up the play after scoring their second goal and as a result the Capitals would start chasing the game to which would then lead to an Andrew MacDonald point shot to get tipped by Scott Laughton to make this a 5-3 game, and have the Flyers trail the Capitals by only two goals.
5 Straight! #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/b88yGGTqt6
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
Lineups:
Washington Capitals:
Alex Ovechkin — Evgeny Kuznetsov — Tom Wilson
Jakub Vrana — Nicklas Backstrom — T.J. Oshie
Carl Hagelin — Lars Eller — Brett Connolly
Andre Burakovsky — Nic Dowd — Travis Boyd
Michal Kempny — John Carlson
Dmitry Orlov — Matt Niskanen
Brooks Orpik — Nick Jensen
Braden Holtby
Pheonix Copley
Scratched: Dmitrij Jaskin, Chandler Stephenson, Christian Djoos
Keep it up #ALLCAPS #CapsFlyers News / Notes: https://t.co/MD63FnR3gY pic.twitter.com/9AhAmXB8rQ
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
Philadelphia Flyers:
Claude Giroux — Nolan Patrick — Travis Konecny
Oskar Lindblom — Sean Couturier — Michael Raffl
James van Riemsdyk — Scott Laughton — Ryan Hartman
Phil Varone — Corban Knight — Justin Bailey
Ivan Provorov — Travis Sanheim
Shayne Gostisbehere — Philippe Myers
Robert Hagg — Radko Gudas
Brian Elliott
Cam Talbot
Scratched: Samuel Morin, Andrew MacDonald
Injured: Michal Neuvirth (lower body), Carter Hart (ankle), Jakub Voracek (lower body)
First Period:
Capitals Goal – 5:55 – Tom Wilson (19) from Alex Ovechkin (31) and Dmitry Orlov (18)
Ovi from his knees sets up Wilson to get the #Caps on the board! 1-0 #CapsFlyers pic.twitter.com/dEEFkc8Hhb
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
Capitals Penalty – 7:43 – TJ Oshie 2 minutes for Hooking
Capitals Goal – 14:16 – Brett Connolly (17) from Carl Hagelin (7) and Matt Niskanen (15)
Conno snipes the camera for his 17th of the season to put the #Caps up 2-0! #CapsFlyers pic.twitter.com/kenjzFiIB1
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
End of 1st – WAS – 2 PHI – 0
Shots 14 07
Faceoffs 02 10
Hits 04 08
PP 0/0 0/1
Second Period:
Flyers Penalty – 1:49 – Sean Couturier 2 minutes for Tripping
Capitals PPG – 2:32 – Alex Ovechkin (46) from Nicklas Backstrom (47) and John Carlson (48)
Ovi goes 5-hole on the power play for his 46th of the season! #Caps lead 3-0 #CapsFlyers pic.twitter.com/HO4hsaYopZ
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
Capitals Goal – 4:18 – Andre Burakovsky (10) from Travis Boyd (14) and Dmitry Orlov (19)
Burkie SNIPE and the caps are up 4-0 #CapsFlyers #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/qgx1owKKx9
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
Talbot takes over in net for Elliott at 4:18 in the second period. #WSHvsPHI
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March 7, 2019
Capitals Goal – 5:37 – Nicklas Backstrom (16) from Jakub Vrana (22) and Nick Jensen (14)
Vrana with the feed from behind the net and Backy right out front to pick it up – #Caps lead 5-0 #CapsFlyers #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/9RptVMAppY
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 7, 2019
Flyers Penalty – 10:30 – Robert Hagg 2 minutes for Slashing
Flyers Goal – 19:48 – Philippe Myers (1) from Claude Giroux (52) and Sean Couturier (35)
The first of many for @philmyers06! Congrats! #WSHvsPHI | #LetsGoFlyers pic.twitter.com/ZdWoNVD0p4
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March 7, 2019
End of 2nd – WAS- 5 PHI- 1
Shots 25 16
Faceoffs 07 20
Hits 09 20
PP 1/2 0/1
Third Period:
Flyers Goal – :10 – Claude Giroux (20) from Oscar Lindblom (15) and Sean Couturier (36)
Lindblom's 👀 leads to G's 🚨! #WSHvsPHI | #LetsGoFlyers pic.twitter.com/szSpbp6wCZ
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March 7, 2019
Flyers Penalty – 2:29 – Scott Laughton 2 minutes for Interference
Flyers Goal – 7:48 – Scott Laughton (10) from Andrew MacDonald (9) and Michael Raffl (11)
Three unanswered goals. We need two more. Laughts of time left. #WSHvsPHI | #LetsGoFlyers pic.twitter.com/gBBLZD0vVn
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March 7, 2019
Capitals Penalty – 10:23 – Tom Wilson 2 minutes for Roughing
Flyers Penalty – 10:23 – Andrew MacDonald 2 minutes for Roughing
End of 3rd – WAS – 5 PHI – 3
Shots 35 30
Faceoffs 14 32
Hits 17 25
PP 1/3 0/1
Next Up:
Washington (39-21-7 85pts) v. New Jersey (25-33-9 59pts)
Philadelphia (32-27-8 72pts) @ NY Islanders (38-21-7 83pts)
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