Washington’s robust capital striker Tom Wilson made his mark on the first round series of the Eastern Conference against Montreal Canadians, and his head coach would not have otherwise.
Wilson, the superstar Alex Ovechkin and the capital will seek to send the Montreal Canadians and qualify as conference semi-finals on Wednesday when the teams play match 5 of their series in Washington.
Capitals won their first two home competitions in the series of best seven before recovering a split in the next two games in Montreal, gracked a 5-2 decision on Sunday.
Brandon Duhaime raised twice in the third period of four goals from the capital and Dylan Strome and Anthony Beauvillier, each helped to extend their respective points to four games. Strome collected a goal and a decisive pass to give it seven points (two goals, five assists) in the series, while Beauvillier won aid to bring his total to five points (one goal, four assists).
While Wilson crowned the scoring by turning into an empty net, it was his success on the defender of the Canadians Alexandre Carrier who set Duhaime’s goal of forging a 2-2 draw at the start of the third. This changed the momentum of the game, according to Capital Coach Spencer Carbery.
“They don’t make them like Tom Wilson,” said Carbery, according to the Washington Post. “Such a rarity of his combination of physics – I even bring his leadership, his competitiveness. There are so many qualities, so that they are all in a single player, they simply do not make them. They are not there. They are not in the league.
“(In match 4), this is not a goal. It is not a decisive pass. It is not a game. It is his physique. … Willy’s blow in the neutral area, there is good clean control, and we counter it. We get this washer, and we are just in the attack.
Wilson can also do other things as we all know. Yes, he often travels the line – and some say that he works regularly – compared to the rules of the game. His skirmish with Josh Anderson of Montreal at the end of the second period of match 3 earned him a lack of play and a fine of $ 5,000 from the NHL.
Canadians cannot be diverted by Wilson’s antics or any other problem since they have no margin of error.
“We continue to push and we believe in the guys we have in the room,” said Montreal striker Cole Caufield. “Now there is no more defeats or the season is over. We just have to be ready for the next one, try to keep it as simple as possible. We have to stay focused on the next quarter of work and find a way to do the work.”
Caufield scored a goal in consecutive matches to increase your three total in the series.
Lane Hutson has achieved a pair of goals in match 4 to become the sixth recruit defender in NHL history to record at least five assists in her first eliminatory series.
Sam Montembeault was injured halfway 3 and set out match 4 in favor of the Jakub Dobes recruit, who finished with 21 stops. Montembeault remains on a daily basis with a lower body injury.
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