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Capitals Fall To Flyers, 4-3 In Shootout; Connor McMichael, Tom Wilson And Dylan Strome Score

By Jon Sorensen·
Photo: X/@Capitals

The Washington Capitals fell to the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3 in a shootout Thursday night at Wells Fargo Center In Philadelphia, PA. Connor McMichael scored his 6th of the season, Tom Wilson added a power play tally for his 10th tally of the campaign and Dylan Strome posted his team-leading 12th goal of the season in the defeat. The loss drops the Capitals record to 14-8-4 on the season.

LINE UP

Charlie Lindgren (6-2-1, 2.34 GAA, .931 sv%) got the start in goal for the visisiting Capitals. Samuel Ersson (5-1-0, 2.80 GAA, .883 sv%) got the start between the pipes for the Flyers. The starting forward lines and defensive pairs for the Capitals:

Alex Ovechkin – Dylan Strome – Tom Wilson
Aliaksei Protas – Connor McMichael – Anthony Mantha
Joe Snively – Matthew Phillips  – T.J. Oshie
Beck Malenstyn – Nic Dowd – Nicolas Aube-Kubel

Martin Fehervary – John Carlson
Rasmus Sandin – Trevor van Riemsdyk
Joel Edmundson – Nick Jensen

 Charlie Lindgren
Darcy Kuemper

Scratches: Evgeny Kuznetsov (illness), Sonny Milano (upper body injury), Alex Alexeyev and Lucas Johansen.

Roster Moves: The Capitals placed forward Sonny Milano on injured reserve and recalled Joe Snively from AHL Hershey on Thursday morning. (More here.)

FIRST PERIOD

Capitals defenseman Joel Edmundson wasted no time in greeting Flyers and former Capitals forward Garnett Hathaway.

The first period went scoreless. The Capitals generated seven shots to the Flyers three for the period.

SECOND PERIOD

The Flyers opened the scoring with a tally from Bobby Brink (5) at the 2:14 mark of the middle frame.

But the Capitals quickly answered just 46 seconds later. Connor McMichael showed off his net front skills for his 6th of the season at 3:00 of the second period. Aliaksei Protas and Anthony Mantha had the helpers.

McMichael’s six goals this season rank fourth on the Capitals (Dylan Strome: 11; Tom Wilson: 9; Anthony Mantha: 7).

The Capitals took their first lead of the night late in the middle stanza with a power play goal from Tom Wilson, his 10th of the season. It was Wilson’s third power play tally of the season, which is tied with Dylan Strome for team lead. Wilson has recorded seven points (6g, 1a) in his last seven games.

The second period concluded with the Capitals holding on to the 2-1 lead. The Capitals led in five-on-five shot attempts  24-18 after two period.

THIRD PERIOD

The Flyers tied the game early in the final frame with a wrap around goal from Joel Farabee with 14:35 left to play in regulation.

The Capitals regained the lead with a tally from Dylan Strome (12) at 9:05 off the frame. Six of Strome’s goals have come in the third period of games.

The Flyers tied the game with 2:59 remaining in regulation. The tying marker was credited to Owen Tippett.

Regulation concluded with the game tied 3-3.

OVERTIME/SHOOTOUT

The three-on-three overtime period went scoreless, sending the game to the shootout.

The Flyers won it in the shootout.

1. – Washington, Oshie (Good), Philadelphia – Couturier (Good)
2. – Washington, Strome (No good), Philadelphia – Foerster (No good)
3. – Washington, Mantha (No good), Philadelphia – Brink (Good)

SHAVINGS

  • The line of Connor McMichael, Anthony Mantha and Aliaksei Protas have accounted for seven five-on-five goals over Washington’s last eight games.