Charlie Lindgren stopped 31 photographs for his second shutout of the season and the Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 4-0 Saturday evening to snap a three-game dropping streak.
Sonny Milano, Anthony Mantha, Tom Wilson and Nicolas Aube-Kubel all had targets to assist the Capitals spoil former coach Peter Laviolette’s return to Washington together with his new crew and transfer into third place within the Metropolitan Division.
“Particularly towards that crew, towards our ex-coach, (that win) means quite a bit,” Aube-Kubel mentioned.
Igor Shesterkin completed with 24 saves because the Rangers had been shut out for the primary time this season and misplaced consecutive video games for the primary time.
“I feel it’s one thing we had early on is type of that competitiveness and somewhat little bit of the sting, that separation possibly, I feel that’s gotten somewhat complacent,” New York captain Jacob Trouba mentioned. “Possibly let off the fuel somewhat bit, and that’s one thing we’re going to seek out out. We will’t win that manner, so we’ve obtained to get again to that combating angle, somewhat little bit of anger in our sport.”
Laviolette spent three seasons with the Capitals earlier than parting methods with the crew in April and becoming a member of the Rangers two months later.
“It was not good from the begin to the end, so no sense dissecting it right here publicly,” Laviolette mentioned of the loss. “We’ve obtained a sport tomorrow evening, and we’ll have to be quite a bit higher.”
Milano, a wholesome scratch on Thursday, obtained the Capitals on the board simply 43 seconds into the sport, firing a cross-ice feed from Martin Fehervary previous Shesterkin.
Washington, which had been struggling to seek out constant offense this season, then scored three targets within the second interval.
Mantha obtained to the crease and redirected Evgeny Kuznetsov’s feed to the entrance previous Sheterkin at 1:43 to place the Capitals up 2-0.
Wilson, who has 5 targets in his final 5 video games, made it 3-0 at 5:35 together with his ninth of the season.
Aube-Kubel, who hadn’t scored since Nov. 10, capped the scoring together with his second with 8:08 left within the center interval. It gave Washington no less than 4 targets in regulation for the second straight sport after totaling 9 targets within the earlier six video games.
“It’s been fairly balanced the entire yr. Now we have all strains with an identification, all strains going on the market with a job and getting it carried out,” Wilson mentioned. “When you’ve got younger guys chipping in and you then get that balanced scoring, it positively helps you set a couple of collectively and get a great crew win.”
Lindgren, going through his brother Ryan, on the NHL stage for the primary time, stole the present in internet, transferring shortly to disclaim the Rangers a couple of high quality probabilities. He stopped youthful 3 times en path to his fourth profession shutout.
“We’re very aggressive however we positively don’t take without any consideration the chance that was, with the ability to be on the identical NHL ice collectively, that was clearly actually cool,” Charlie Lindgren mentioned, including, “He’s a aggressive child. He’s an ideal hockey participant, too. It was enjoyable to win tonight.”
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