It's not surprising that the Caps, playing without Ovechkin and Knuble, lost this game on the road to a streaking Devils squad. The regrettable part is that they played a pretty decent first period before mailing it in in the second period after the Devils tied it up.
That goal came off of a devastating (offensive) blue line turnover by Semin. With the head coach providing quotes like this in response to a question about the turnover, one has to doubt Bongo's future in the organization:
"I don't know, but it's not the way we play. You can only tell certain people so many times." ouch.
The good: Flash and Perreault continued their respective hot streaks. Everything Fleischmann touches ends up in the net - he's near the top of the league in shooting percentage. Perreault will be the third line center before the season is over.
The bad: The first line went AWOL, Theo did not come up with any big stops, and they were defensively sloppy in the critical second period.
The ugly: Boyd Gordon lasted only half the game in his return from a back injury.
Once again - got snookered on this telecast in favor of the freakin' Wizards - finally saw a re-broadcast two days after the game. The least Verizon could here do is re-broadcast the CSN+ games Northern Marylanders don't get to see in the middle of the night following the game so it could be DVR'ed and watched on a timely basis.
Bastards.
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