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Boston Bruins get shutout for the first time this season by the Washington Capitals 3-0, 2/10/24

 




*Sorry for the lack of photos! Hoping to get permission eventually.*


   The Bruins got shutout for the first time since January 12th, 2023... a loss against the Seattle Kraken. The Washington Capitals ended a 6-game losing streak in a 3-0 win against the Boston Bruins.


Capitals lineup against the Bruins:

Ovechkin - Strome - Oshie

Pacioretty - Sgarbossa - Wilson

Mantha - McMichael - Protas

Malenstyn - Dowd - Phillips


Fehervary -  Carlson

Sandin - Jensen

Edmundson - Bear


Lindgren

Kuemper


Bruins lineup against the Capitals:

Marchand - Coyle - DeBrusk

Riemsdyk - Zacha - Pastrnak

Lauko - Geekie - Frederic

Richard - Boqvist - Heinen


Grzelcyk - McAvoy

Lindholm - Carlo

Forbort - Wotherspoon


Swayman

Ullmark


   The first period was completely scoreless, 0-0.


   Scoring the first goal of the game early into the second period - T.J. Oshie gave Washington the 1-0 lead. Oshie got the feed from Max Pacioretty in the left circle from behind the net and scored on the power play. The Capitals kept their one-goal lead throughout the rest of the middle frame.


   Dylan Strome gave Washington a two-goal lead at 16:35 of the final frame. Strome snuck the puck under the crossbar during a 2-on-1 rush with Alex Ovechkin, scoring his team-leading 20th goal of the season. Alex Ovechkin scored into the empty net with very little time left in the third period for the 3-0 final.




Notes:

- Alex Ovechkin passed Wayne Gretzky for the most empty-net goals in NHL history... Wayne Gretzky has 56, Alex Ovechkin has 57.

- Alex Ovechkin scored his 4th goal straight and had an assist

- T.J. Oshie had a goal and an assist

- T.J. Oshie scored his 189th goal with the Capitals and passed Bobby Carpenter (188) for ninth place in franchise history.

- Charlie Lindgren became the eighth Capitals goalie to record three shutouts within his first 23 appearances of the season.

- Charlie Lindgren made 18 saves for Washington

- This was Brad Marchand's 999th career game... his 1,000th game will be on February 13th against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

- Charlie Coyle's career-high 10-game point streak was put to an end (four goals, 11 assists)

- Anthony Richard got one shot on goal in his season debut... it was his 16th NHL game and first with the Boston Bruins.

- Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves for Boston




Brad Marchand on the Bruins' 3-0 loss: "You don't want to see it happen but it's not concerning. We just got to get back to the consistency we had, lasted a little bit. Get back to our game again... We had to be better, we had to win more battles."


Beck Malenstyn on the Capitals' 3-0 win against the Bruins: "I thought we did a phenomenal job from start to finish. We were able to really control play. I think we spent a lot of time in the offensive zone too, which really helped us. The best way to defend is to be down there. I really think we committed as a group. We broke pucks out a lot cleaner than we have been. It was really a complete team effort."





Postgame: Charlie Lindgren

Postgame: Dylan Strome

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