Casp Beat Predators

The Caps jumped out to a nice 2 goal lead but allowed the Preds to tie it. It would require OT and i'll tell you about that later but first the gaols. First it was on the PP where a pass to Ovie resulted in the one timer above the leg pad of the goalie as clark was doing a nic job screening the goalie and he never got a good look at his surrouindings from Green and Knuble his 8th goal. Then a long alley oop was flipped to Ovie who got a good bounce off the boards and skated in n dekked and put the puck five hole gis 9th from Morrison who flipped the puck up ice off the glass for a kiss and the baSKET a bball reference. Preds would ytoie it and the thirds wsand OT was scorless. Shootout recap Backstrom denied save Varl;a,mov who was great in this one and had to stop 2 shorthanded beakaways in the first but did allow a flukey goal on a bad angle shot. Ovechkin fakes a hard shot dekes around the ghoalie and fires it up and in. Varlamov denies the next shooter Morrison gets denied an Varlamov makes the third consecutive save batting down the shot Caps win 3-2. PP Caps 1-3 Preds 0-4 and i thought the Caps could have had more PPs but the refs werent given ythem out to the Caps. Ovechkin 1st star Varlamov 3rd with 22 saves and an excellent pewrformance in his first shootout. Caps now 4-2-2 on a 2 gsame winning streak and quite a few days off not playimng til thursday in Atl who is secobd with 8 points but three games fewer played so the Caps woul love to beat them.

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