Displacement began as a disaster for the capitals of Washington. With less than two minutes left in the third period, the Pittsburgh penguins circled in front of the "Captains" goalkeeper Braden Holtby, who seemed to be playing games without an actual advantage for the person. The Washington center Niklas Backstrom finally pulled out the puck, and he and captain Alex Ovechkin skated together on the ice.
Penguins tortured Bakstrem and Ovechkin, the longest players in Washington, in the playoffs of the past. On Tuesday evening, Backstrom switched to Ovechkin on two-on-one, and after Ovechkin hit the mail with the first shot, he jumped in the rebound with the remains of only 1:07, raising the capital to 4-3 wins and 2 -1 in the best seven series of the second round. Washington - 4: 0 on the way to the playoffs of the Stanley Cup.
"I mean, if you want to succeed in the playoffs, you have to win on the road, and especially because they also won the first game," said Backstrom. "It's better to be 2-1 than 2-1. We just love the next game. "
Both units of special groups in Washington improved in the postseason. Power game with Ovechkin in the left circle on the front side is always dangerous, and the Capitals scored at least one goal with a male advantage in all but one of the nine playoff games. But it was murder in prison that was often for Washington. Entering the game on Tuesday, the team did not allow the goal in the power game from the 2nd game against Columbus in the first round, and in game 3 against Pittsburgh the abbreviated division of Capitals allowed Washington to settle down after a busy start.
Brett Connolly and TJ Oshi were called to offense violations during the first 10 minutes, but the Capitals killed their 23rd and 24th fines. The murder in Washington's penalty area took the 15th place in the regular season by 80.2 percent, and this led to 86.3 percent through the first eight games in the playoffs of the capital.
The power in Washington scored the first goal on Tuesday from the moment John Carlson scored 48 seconds in the second period, but the penguins responded less than four minutes later when Jake Guenzel overturned Justin Schulz, shot past Holtby. Then, at the third game of Pittsburgh, the death penalty in Washington finally broke down. Patrick Hornquist beat Dmitry Orlov ahead, fighting off a rebound from Yevgeny Malkin to give Pittsburgh 2-1 lead 6:49 in the second period.
The penguin line got momentum with the return of Malkin, who missed the first two games of the series with an obvious leg injury. Malkin, who led Pittsburgh in the standings this season, added even more firepower to the team's power play, and also allowed Penguins coach Mike Sullivan to distribute his top scorers on several lines, which made Pittsburgh deeper and harder to resist. Phil Kessel, who scored 34 goals this season, was on the third line, while Derik Brassard (21 goals) concentrated fourth. Sullivan also made concerted efforts to remove Captain Sidney Crosby from the top defensive pair of Washington Niskanen and Orlova.
These teams have a long-standing rivalry with each other, but the tension seemed particularly great before the game after the controversial clash between Pittsburgh by Brian Dumoulin and Washington's Tom Wilson in Game 2. Dumoulin was knocked out for the rest of the game after Wilson came in contact with him in the second period, but the NHL considered contact "inevitable" because of how Dumulin changed his position before striking with Wilson.
Wilson was booed when he touched the puck on Tuesday night, and the fans' displeasure with him became more pronounced after his strike on the penguins ahead of Zach Aston-Rees in the second period caused Aston-Rees to leave the ice. There was no penalty for the game, but it will inevitably be scrutinized to see if Wilson first struck the shoulder or head of Aston Reese, and the latter potentially leads to additional discipline. Sullivan said Aston-Reese had a concussion and a broken jaw.
But as the game became more unpleasant, and the crowd turned back to Washington, it seemed that the Capitals seemed to be pleased with the hostility.
"It was a game in which we had to work until the end," Holtby said. "This was our goal. I thought that we play very well in many areas. They made us be real patients and wait for our chances, and it was a real tough game for both teams. We have achieved what we wanted, and now we like it for a couple of minutes, and we will focus on game 4. "
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