PHILADELPHIA — The Washington Capitals’ Braden Holtby stood tall Wednesday night as he made 30 saves to help the Caps defeat the Flyers, 2-1, in a shootout.
Claude Giroux #28 of the Philadelphia Flyers scores during the shootout against Braden Holtby #70 of the Washington Capitals.
“We haven’t been in a 1-0 game going in to the third period this year,” Capitals coach Todd Reirden said. “They were able to convert on the power play, credit to them for making a good play on that. Then I thought the second half of the third period we really carried the play. That’s a strong mark of our team, we kept pushing. They made some good saves, we had some really good chances. We were able to get the extra point in the shootout.”
Brendan Leipsic scored for the Caps in regulation as they improved to 14-2-4.
Claude Giroux forced the extra session with a goal early in the third period.
“I thought we had a tough first period,” Philadelphia forward Jakub Voracek said. “I think we were light on pucks. … I thought we got better since the second period came on. It was an open game, and I’m glad we got one point out of it.”
Evgeny Kuznetsov was credited with the deciding goal for the Caps.
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Carter Hart made 35 saves in the loss.
“He played a great game obviously,” Giroux said. “Trying to play better in front of him. That’s a good hockey team on the other side, but I think in the second and third we played the way we wanted to.”
Evgeny Kuznetsov #92 of the Washington Capitals scores against Carter Hart #79 of the Philadelphia Flyers during the shootout.
Travis Sanheim #6 of the Philadelphia Flyers stick checks the puck away from T.J. Oshie #77 of the Washington Capitals
Shayne Gostisbehere #53 of the Philadelphia Flyers checks Alex Ovechkin #8 of the Washington Capitals off the puck.
Carter Hart #79 of the Philadelphia Flyers lays out to stop the shot by Lars Eller #20 of the Washington Capitals.
Claude Giroux #28 of the Philadelphia Flyers score against Braden Holtby #70 of the Washington Capitals
Washington Capitals John Carlson #74 and Micheal Kempny #6, battle with Travis Konecny #11 and Oskar Lindblom #23 of the Philadelphia Flyers
Carter Hart #79 of the Philadelphia Flyers lays out to stop the shot by Lars Eller #20 of the Washington Capitals. Andy Welinski #3, Matt Niskanen #15, Ivan Provorov #9 of the Philadelphia Flyers move in to assist.
Claude Giroux #28 of the Philadelphia Flyers score against Braden Holtby #70 of the Washington Capitals
Goalie Braden Holtby #70 of the Washington Capitals directs the shot by Sean Couturier #14 of the Philadelphia Flyers away towards his teammate Tom Wilson #43
Carter Hart #79 of the Philadelphia Flyers makes a pad save.
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