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A well-rested Alexander Ovechkin lifts the Capitals to victory and the Kings
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looks at Monday nights playoff action. PUT ME IN, COACH!Even though he played
just 13:16, Capitals LW Alexander Ovechkin scored the game-winning goal in the
third period at Madison Square Garden, giving the Washington Capitals a 3-2 win
over the New York Rangers and evening the series at one game apiece. Ovechkins
ice time was his lowest in game since March 14, 2010, when he was ejected
against the Chicago Blackhawks for boarding Brian Campbell. The last time he
played so little and it wasnt the result of a major penalty and ejection, it was
November 1, 2009 when he left a game against Columbus with a lower body injury.
Only once in his career has Ovechkin played fewer than 14 minutes and it wasnt
the result of penalty or injury: that was in the fifth game of his career, a 7-2
loss to Carolina on October 12, 2005 when he played 13:53. But, despite the
career-low in ice time (including those qualifiers), Ovechkin rose to the
occasion, scoring a the game-winning goal and registering a game-high seven
shots on goal in the game. Checking centre Jay Beagle, who led the Capitals with
five hits, also led all Washington forwards with 19:58 of ice time, a playoff
high and a total he surpassed once in 41 regular season games. D
Michael Del Zotto played a strong game for the Rangers, assisting on both New
York goals and hitting the post, solidly, twice in the third period. Del Zottos
time on ice of 25:08 was his playoff high. In an effort to generate offence, the
Rangers effectively sat their fourth line of Artem Anisimov, John Mitchell and
Mike Rupp, as each one played under five minutes in the game. Ovechkin scored
the winning goal and the Capitals got a split on the road, so criticism isnt
going to come hard on Washington head coach Dale Hunter, but the decision to
play Ovechkin so little was only bailed out by Ovechkin producing when given a
chance in the third period—not good enough to play regularly, it seems, but
good enough to bail the Capitals out when they surrendered the 2-0 lead that
they had been sitting on for nearly half the game (29:44). START WITH SPEEDOn a
night that the St. Louis Blues were missing their best defenceman,
Alex Pietrangelo, the Los Angeles Kings stormed to a 4-0 first period lead and
never looked back, coasting to a 5-2 win to take a 2-0 lead in the series. With
Pietrangelo out, Kevin Shattenkirk received more ice time, playing 28:41 (and
registering a game-high six shots on goal and four blocked shots) and
Kris Russell played 22:03 for the Blues. Kings captain Dustin Brown continued
his strong postseason, picking up three assists, giving him nine points in seven
playoff games. Anze Kopitar scored a pair of goals for the Kings, including a
highlight-reel shorthanded effort after a Dustin Brown steal in the offensive
zone. It was the second straight game in which Dustin Penner contributed two
points to the Kings efforts—he had two multi-point games in 65 regular season
games. Justin Williams and Mike Richards both had two-point nights as well.
After racing out to that 4-0 lead, on 16 first period shots, the Kings managed a
total of five shots on goal in the next two periods. Brian Elliott allowed five
goals on 21 shots for the Blues before he was pulled in favour of rookie
Jake Allen. Prior to Game Two, Elliott had allowed more than four goals once in
40 regular season and playoff starts. With Jaroslav Halak out for the rest of
the series, the Blues are going to need Elliott at his best if St. Louis is
going to get some road wins in Los Angeles. Scott Cullen can be reached at
Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook.
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