The Capitals, coached by assistant Kevin McCarthy with Peter Laviolette in COVID-19 protocols, killed off the entirety of Aube-Kubel’s 5-minute penalty, which came after a fight broke out between Patrick Maroon and Garnet Hathaway during the officials’ review of the head shot. It’s tough to see when you see really good defensemen having to go out and eat those shots, but they’ve been doing that for their whole careers here and that’s why they’re so valuable.”
“That’s what you have to do to win in this league, and it’s engrained in guys. “That’s championship pedigree,” captain Steven Stamkos said. The Lightning finished the game with half the defensemen they started with after losing Foote and then Mikhail Sergachev and Erik Cernak, who laid out to block shots from Alex Ovechkin. It’s too bad we’re playing them again (Sunday) because I doubt he will be around to see the game.” The Capitals won despite playing almost two periods down a forward after Nicolas Aube-Kubel was given a match penalty for an illegal check to the head of Lightning defenseman Cal Foote, who did not return and was not doing well afterward, according to coach Jon Cooper. Sonny Milano scored twice and Anthony Mantha and Aliaksei Protas each had a goal for Washington, which avoided a second consecutive loss after dropping six of its previous eight games. “You could see it in our play right from the start, and it was nice to see everyone get rewarded.” “As a group we came together with the urgency that we really wanted this win,” Kuemper said. He picked up his fifth win in 12 starts since leaving the Avalanche and signing a long-term deal with the Capitals and said he was thinking much more about helping his new team than going up against Tampa Bay.
Kuemper was facing the Lightning for the first time since defeating them in Game 6 of the final while with Colorado.
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With some roughing mixed in, the incident added up to 26 penalty minutes and finished Mantha’s second career Gordie Howe hat trick - a goal, an assist and a fight.Įxpect another chippy game 48 hours later.WASHINGTON (AP) - Darcy Kuemper got the best of the Tampa Bay Lightning again, making 28 saves to backstop the Washington Capitals to a 5-1 victory Friday night against the team he beat for the Stanley Cup last summer in a game full of boiling tensions and a couple of fights. The Capitals killed off all five minutes, and Sonny Milano - who was serving Aubel-Kubel’s penalty - scored coming out of the box on a breakaway 7 seconds after the Lightning power play expired.Ī few Washington goals later, a line brawl erupted with 5:40 left in the third with Tampa Bay’s Corey Perry fighting Anthony Mantha and teammate Vladislav Namestnikov dropping the gloves with Washington’s Erik Gustafsson. Nick Paul hopped off the bench for a second before being urged back by Lightning teammates to avoid what would have been an automatic 10-game suspension. Hurricanes try to keep road win streak going in matchup with the CapitalsĪ handful of other players were involved in the initial scrum, and they exchanged some pushes and shoves around the fight before Maroon and Hathaway got separated.
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