The boys from D.C. headed to scumbag Philly town to eat cheesesteaks and kick ass and they were all out of cheesesteaks.
More than halfway through the first period the Flyers bright young star Matvei Michkov got the scoring started on a breakaway goal to beat Lindy, 1-0 Flyers.
The Capitals anwsered semi quickly in the remaining minuete of the first The Gr8 One got the game tied up with beuatiful pass from Martin Fehervary who found a sneaking Ovi who beat the goalie who was screened by his own teammate.
This goal 879 of his career making him 16 goals away from breaking the record. On top of that this was the 180th different goalie Ovi has scored on. This time the victim was Ivan Fedotov.
In the second right as the power-play had ended Connor McMichael dropped the puck to Protas who then snapped it back to McMichael who then redirected it past the Flyers netminder, 2-1 Caps.
This was his 19th of the season and now has a new single season career high for goals scored.
Not to long after the Caps go ahead goal the Flyers tied the game back up on the power-play off a slap shot from the blue line by Emil Andrae that was redirected by Tyson Foerster, 2-2 ballgame.
Michkov got on the board again off some nice tic tac toe passing by the Flyers who beat Lindy on the doorstep who had zero chance to make the save, 3-2 Flyers.
We head to the third period and Taylor Raddysh made a great play by catching the puck which prevented the clearing attempt by Philly, then got the puck to Lars Eller who whipped a wicked wrister past the Flyer’s goalie tying the game at 3 a piece.
The Caps now have 10 players with 10 or more goals.
Jakob Chychrun breaks the tie off a dime of a pass from Carlson to give the Caps the 4-3 lead.
This was Chychrun’s 14th of the season and is now tied for 3rd for most goals by a defensemen in the NHL.
Lindy played his balls off tonight especially in the third and more so with Philly’s goalie pulled and not letting them tie the game up. Lindy stopped 19 of 22 shots and notched his 50th win as a Capital.
Once again it was a sloppy one that in the past the Caps lose this game 10 times out of 10 but this team is different. This was also their league leading 18th comeback win of the season tonight.
Ovi also tied Phil Esposito for 11th most points in NHL history with 1,590.
Capitals take on Utah “whatevers” next at home then it’s All Star break time.
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