The joy is watching a sublime 4 goal performance by
Alex Ovechkin against the
Tampa Bay Lighting. He started scoring when
the Caps were down by 3 goals and finished by tying the game at 19:27 in the
3rd period after
Ondrej Palat scored
the go ahead goal for the Lightning at 8:36 in the 3rd.
Ovie forced the game to overtime and the Caps
won in the shootout. There are games when Ovie carries the Caps on his back and
this was one of them, supported by his center,
Nicklas Backstrom, who netted 5-points of his own.
Ovie overcame Mike
Green's 18-minutes of penalties in the 1st period, ending with his
10-minute misconduct. I was happy to see Green leave the ice. He looked lazy and
inept during that period and has been playing poorly most of the season, as
noted in my post a couple of weeks ago. Why Coach Adam Oates doesn't cut his
playing time is beyond me.
Let's go Caps!
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