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Nice shot by Wilson. 2-0 CAPS. Make it 3-0. Smith-Pelly with the third goal in the remaining seconds in the first period.

1-0 CAPS off the power play. I like it.

Let's Go CAPS!

RIP. Didn't know he had ALS. Too young to be gone. Thoughts and prayers to his family.

That and you'll get to lobby refs to make calls in your favor as well as author a special cook book.

Who's that?

Unless a miracle, 2-1 Caps lead the series. If they can pull off another win on Monday, that is a ton of momentum going back to Vegas.

Empty net Vegas

Wilson needs to level one of those Vegas punks. But he'll probably end up getting the penalty.

Nice! 3-1 Caps with 6:07 remaining. Hope that seals it.

I was going to say, there was like three tripping incidents on Vegas. Refs called one when his own teammate tripped him.

Let's get one back with this power play.

stupid play by Holtby. Swing it around back, not in front of an open net.

2-0 Caps. Keep the pressure up. VGK doesn't relent.

Go Caps! Just heard Kuznetzov is in the line up ?

Why not? Not unprecedented. They game away white towels game 2 in Vegas.

@26CornerBlitz Thanks for the post! Good news, indeed. Lars Eller has done a good job with more ice time, but having Kuzy back would be huge.

I haven't heard any thing else on Kuznetsov, and I kind of doubt we will. NHL isn't required to disclose injury status as far as I know. I'd be kind of surprised if he plays Saturday night; the left wrist looked like it was really bothering him. I don't think the hit was in retribution to the Wilson hit since the check on Kuzy was clean, just an unfortunate injury. Looking forward to game 3 as well, which is shaping up to be a good series. Both teams are going at each other and not holding back. Caps need to cut back on the penalties or those will be their downfall; they were very fortunate to survive the 5 on 3 Wednesday night.

I'm against raisins in anything: stuffing, cookies, bread, cake, pudding...you name it. No raisins. Let the raisin fans buy the SunMaid boxes of raisins, if those are still available.

I was wondering the exact same thing. VGK loses a game and they go into hiding, or hibernation until October.

Great couple of posts on depth, Shaw. Good, and probably correct, way of looking at it. I'd add that any starter caliber guys on the bench soon become starters; either for their current team or another team. At some point in the season, pretty much all teams have a depth guy(s) in the starting lineup, and as you point out their success is attributed to good coaching.

I'll admit I was down on the Caps after games 4 and 5 of the TB series. Then a completely different Caps team showed up for games 6 and 7; they were aggressive, dominant, and played smart. So if they play like they did last night (other than the penalties), as well as games 6 and 7 last series, I like the Caps chances to win the Stanley Cup...finally. Will still be a tough series against VGK, but 1-1 (could be 2-0 had it not been for that cheap goal) headed to home ice is not a bad place to be.

Wow, Holtby comes up big.

Seriously, these penalties are going to hurt. 5-3 for 1:09

3-1 Caps. Have to keep going for 30 more minutes. Much better defensive play by the Caps this game.