It was almost Groundhog’s Day last night as the Caps feel behind 2-0 at the end of the 1st period against Ottawa. Then, all of a sudden, a couple of bounces went our way, in particular our 2nd goal which Fehr snuck by Ottawa’s goalie and all of a sudden, it looked like we were going to win.
Thank God.
I think what was most impressive to me about the victory was that we got the 3-2 with more than half the game left and we were still able to grind out a victory in which our PK had to thwart the Senators on 3 occasions in the 3rd period alone. Neuvy was strong with his glove and now, thank God, the losing streak is over.
Thank God.
Now the question is how do we react? Hopefully, the boys have had a large enough taste of humble pie to see that they really need to bring the effort every time in order to be a consistent winner especially since our big guns continue to struggle. At some point, you figure that Ovie and Backstrom have to start scoring, along with Brooks Laich, but we’ve all been saying that for a while and they’re still not scoring. For now though, I don’t care because the losing streak is over.
Thank God.
Now, it’s time to start winning some more games because after all, we are 1-8 in our last nine games, so we need to beat the Devils to get back on the right side of things especially before we have two big games coming up against the Penguins.
For those of you keeping count, we are now 12-3 when holding our opponents to 2 goals or less. The problem is that we have played 35 games and have only done that 15 times out of those 35 games. That’s not winning hockey. But for last night, we were winners.
Thank God.
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