5-3 win vs the Caps. They sure made it interesting. Had a 5-1 lead and got Samsonov yanked after 5. Holtby was good after that, and the Isles hit a few posts. Beauvillier with 2 goals in the first few minutes of the game and Holtby robbed him of the hat trick late in the third.
Uncle Leo with his 2nd of the year. Eberle with a nice one. And Toews scored on the Caps again- but did NOT do the Kuznetsov celebration. He looked very stoic after scoring. Good.
Caps pulled Holtby with just over 3 minutes to go. It was stressful to watch.
Isles just missed the empty net a few times.
7 points behind the Caps now, but in the more important direction, the Blue Jackets and Flyers are right on the Isles' ass. Isles and Flyers play tonight. I don't buy a lot into the "on pace for" until past the 3/4 mark of the season, but we're getting very close to that and the 9th place Canes are on pace for 100 points. What the fucking fuck? Loser points have been around for a while, so it's not like they're suddenly raising the bar. Is it that the bad teams are THAT bad and everyone is getting points vs them? The bar for making the playoffs used to be 96 points and you were all but assured a spot. Now that would have you on the outside looking in, but in a shitty draft lottery spot. The Metro with 6 teams in the playoff dog fight. Crazy shit.