Before another sell out crowd and national TV audience, the Washington Capitals defeated the defending Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks, 4-3 in overtime today.
The win extended Washington's winning streak to eight games, a season high.
The two teams did not disappoint and neither deserved to lose today but only one team can earn the second point. The Caps and Hawks played another entertaining game reminiscent of the one they played almost a year ago to the day on National TV.
In that game the Caps fell behind 3-0, lost Alex Ovechkin to a game misconduct for hitting Brian Campbell from behind and still managed to win 4-3 in overtime on a Nicklas Backstrom goal.
Ironically, without Backstrom today, his replacement Marcus Johansson set up the game winner in overtime and has filled in more than nicely during Backstrom's absence.
The Capitals played hard right from the opening draw today but for the sixth time in the past seven games allowed the first goal. The caps have now surrendered the first goal in a whopping 60 percent, or 42 out of 70 games this season. Unbelievably th ...
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Washington Capitals Win Eighth Straight Game Beating Chicago Blackhawks in OT
March 13th, 2011 by Alan Zlotorzynski Leave a reply »
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