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Capitals vs Flyers Recap: Caps Storm Past Flyers In 6-1 Win
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Alright, boys and girls and babes, time for the first Washington Capitals game post-trade deadline. Exit: Jakub Vrana and Richard Panik. Enter: Anthony Mantha. Well, Mantha and Michael Raffl, but Raffl was unavailable tonight due to undisclosed injury issues. The revamped Caps’ lines against the Philadelphia Flyers tonight looked a little something like this:
Capitals lines vs Flyers:
Vitek Vanecek may have the hotter hand right now, but Ilya Samsonov is 3-0 against the Flyers this season so it was all Sammy in net tonight. Brian Elliott was in net across the ice for the Flyers, with Carter Hart sitting backup. Which goalie would help lead their team to victory? Let’s find out.
The last two games are good examples. In each contest, played against the same Islanders who knocked them out of the postseason this past summer, the Flyers had two-goal leads. In each one, they needed overtime to clinch two points in the standings. In both wins, the Flyers were out-shot by a large margin, and in both games they committed more penalties.
Still, a win is a win especially against the Isles. It just shows our team chemistry, our connection with the coaches, said Kevin Hayes, who netted the game-winner Sunday. They don’t panic. I feel like every time we play these guys in the playoffs and now, we’re up two and then all of the sudden we are tied. It is a resilient group. We have the right leadership in this room. Even though Coots is gone he’s a tough guy to replace we are still winning games. Obviously, you want to win every game 10-0, but that’s not the case here. When you go up two goals and you’re feeling good about your game and all the sudden