Thompson what a dumb**** lmao

He's holding a skater's stick and had the puck come right to his glove to freeze it and instead he shovels it away.

Strome lmao, this is incredible

At least the Caps were able to continue their streak of cross checks to the face.

Wild. He looks done. Don't like injuries and Monty hurt too, but I'll take a battle of backups any day of the week. Dobes is solid. Lindgren is poo.

Haha exactly. They've been doing it all series. Ingrained in them.

Let's ****ing go

OT baby. Let's hope it doesn't end in 3 minutes.

2, 17, 3, 5, 1 mins have been the OTs so far this playoffs. Very weak.

I don't care how long it takes to end, as long as the Canes are victorious.

devils season basically on the line in this overtime ... lets see what they got

Playoff OT is like no other. This is intense.

shoutout to the guy rocking the sergei brylin sweater, thats a deep cut. tho...

Holy **** this is stressful.

Double. Ice up son

NJ had all of the energy and capitalized. See you on Sunday.

Now we need an Oil OT win.

that is goalie interference, but they ~never call that. so probably dumb to challenge

kings challenge was all-time dumb

Kings went on mega-tilt and gave lead away

of course i didn't bet any or all of them

Habs situation is crazy

Youngest team ever to playoff
Top 2 salaries on the team are Carey Price and Laine (was a healthy scratch tonight)

Despite that they've outplayed the best team in the East after 1 home and 2 road games:

56.6 CF%, 55.2% FF%, 7.5-7.43 xG lead (5-on-5 over entire series)

Even if they don't advance, it's still been a hell of a ride and some valuable experience for future playoff runs.

Are they really out playing them or did yesterday's game skew those results because they were clearly the better team yesterday?

2-1 Capitals seems like the correct series result so far.

On this possible historic day, we have Gus making a good post for once!

Also, MCLEAFIN, tonight could be the night!

Kinda depends on how you wanna look at score effects imo, game 1 seemed reasonably even but with MTL chasing the game most of the way, game 2 the Caps much better through 2 periods but the Habs made up all of that and maybe more in the third, again though chasing the game. Game 3 obviously a MTL beat down. I'm not sure why WSH turtled so much in both 3rd periods at home, it's not like they were up big and playing out the string. Roughly even for the series in xG seems about right with MTL's 1st line crushing it according to my eye test and the Caps with smaller advantages through the rest of the line up.

Of course now it might all come down to who has the better back-up

First 2 games Washington was clearly expending a lot of energy early trying to be physical with the Habs, so I think the Habs were always gonna have big 3rd periods in both games.

Caps came out ok in 3rd period of game 3, but maybe got demoralized once Strome annihilated his own goalie, plus the Habs top line was otherworldly. Probably also helped that Laine, who is a horrible 5-on-5 player, was removed.

I mean Caps needed a goal scored with a high stick in game 1 to send it to OT and Habs were super strong in the 3rd game 2 chasing the tying goal but Thompson was incredible. 2-1 series lead either way would probably be fair.

Anyway, the overall point was that the Habs are playing with the youngest team ever without their top 2 payroll spots and roughly even with the top team in the East.

Was Laine a healthy scratch? I saw something saying he was day to day w injury.