In Washington, DC, Vitek Vanecek made 36 saves in a 4-0 shut out for the Capitals over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
“It feels good. You’re trying to get back. Just trying to help the team,” Vanecek said. “[The team] helped me a lot today, blocking shots. We battled hard today and it was a good game.”
The Caps improved to 22-18-9.
“I thought it was a really strong game,” Washington coach Peter Laviolette said. “We had a real good first period, the guys were on point, came out the right way and got ourselves the lead and just built on it from there. They gave a pretty good push in the third period, but that’s when we blocked some shots and Vitek made some real big saves.”
Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov had goals for the Caps.
“Lots of penalties. That’s definitely a trend I don’t like,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “Tonight, that’s the game. First period, you’re in the box for six minutes, the 5-on-3. You can’t even get going. So, I don’t like it, that’s for sure.”
The Canes were scoreless in three chances on the power play, the Caps went 2-for-7.
“Too many penalties, especially against a power play like that,” the Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho said. “Our power play was bad. We didn’t create any momentum whatsoever.”
Martin Fehervary scored for Washington, and Dmitri Orlov potted a goal with under a minute left in the third period.
Frederik Andersen made 28 saves in the Canes loss.
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