Nic Dowd squeaked a shot through Merzlikins' pads at 8:34 to knot the game again, and then then penalties started up, again. In the middle frame, the Jackets regained the lead on a Sean Kuraly shot that beat Kuemper on the glove side at 3:25. Carlson bumped it onto the captain's blade, and Ovechkin's one-time blast from above the left circle eluded Merzlikins to make it a 2-2 game with 12.7 seconds left in the first. Evgeny Kuznetsov gained the Columbus line on the rush, then slid a pass a cross for Alex Ovechkin. Jenner came out of the box and went right back in, this time for an unwise slashing violation in the offensive zone. Washington was dominant with the extra man, spending most of the two minutes in the offensive zone and constantly creating, but it wasn't able to score. Less than 90 seconds later, the Caps went to the power play courtesy of a Boone Jenner holding call. Chinakhov put a laser of a shot to the far side to make it a 2-1 game. With Garnet Hathaway in the box for interference, Yegor Chinakhov gave the Blue Jackets their first lead with a power-play goal at 14:58. The Jackets won a draw in their own end, and a dozen seconds later Laine fired a shot past Darcy Kuemper from between the hash marks, tying the game at 10:37. Caps Anthony Mantha got the scoring started at 9:56 of the first, deflecting a Martin Fehervary wrist shot past Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins from the left point.Ĭolumbus needed less than a minute to respond, getting even on a Patrik Laine goal 41 seconds after the Mantha marker. The first half of the opening period was quiet, particularly in relation to the second half. But it's always better when it's live and you're in real time." And so a night like tonight is a good teaching night where you can go back and see some good things that we did, and some things that we can do better. But sometimes the power play guys are on the penalty kill they don't necessarily get a chance. "You see at practice that we work on power play and penalty kill all the time. There's a lot of full lineups in there, so I think it's a good set-up for opening night where you get a lot of work in. "Probably both teams are happy to get work you get a lot of power plays, a lot of penalty kills, you get overtime. "It was good," says Caps coach Peter Laviolette of the special teams affair. You can't ask for much more than that."įacing each other for the second time in as many Saturday nights, the Caps and Jackets combined for a somewhat choppy but entertaining game, one that featured four power plays on each side and a combined total of 70 shots on net. Brownie made a heck of a pass it's a three-foot saucer pass right over a sliding for an open net. I didn't play much overtime last year, so happy to get the opportunity to be out there. "We were talking before the face-off there that if they get a chance, we're going to just go," recounts Strome. Video: Strome cashes in on brilliant pass in OT Brown feathered a saucer feed over the defender's stick, and Strome buried it from in tight to win it for Washington. Carlson carried behind the Caps' cage and then fired a long stretch pass up to right wing wall to spring Brown into Columbus ice on a 2-on-1 with Strome on the left side. John Carlson and Connor Brown converged on Blue Jackets winger Johnny Gaudreau in the Washington end, shaking the puck loose from him as he entered the slot.
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