Recap: Capitals 7 @ Flames 2

domination (noun)
1. an act or instance of dominating

--Per Dictionary.com

That was the night, in a nutshell. For the first twenty minutes Calgary were much better, but a bad hooking penalty by Curtis Glencross in the offensive zone helped the Caps to start scoring. A lot.



Man of the match: Mike Green. All night long Green was simply fantastic and the best player on the ice. He broke up plays with ease and started the Caps' rush with that trademark effortless stride. His feed to Nicklas Backstrom on the latter's power play goal was Crosby-esque, through three Flames in the slot and right onto Backstrom's stick.



Timeonice reports: Shift Charts, Head-to-Head TOI, Zonestart, Corsi/Fenwick

Not too much to note here. Regehr-Bouwmeester and Hagman-Jokinen-Bourque went out against Ovechkin's line. John Carlson and Karl Alzner drew the tough matchup against Iginla. They, especially Carlson, didn't look too good, but with that matchup and the toughest zonestart on the team (+4) temper your perceptions accordingly--Carlson wasn't that bad. In my opinion, though, Carlson puts himself in a position to be hit too often. I guess his leg is nagging him and not letting him skate as quickly as normal.

In terms of Corsi, the Caps were a -13. Ouch. Green, Steckel (each +2), and Hendricks (+1) were the only Caps to come out positive, and Ovechkin and King were even. Carlson was a -11 on his own, so without him on the ice (and hence probably Iginla) the teams were even. I think score effects wouldn't be all that prominent here, since the Flames seemed to give up after a while. They were launching shots from the outside quite a bit--their first PP the Flames had four shots and I didn't even come close to recording a scoring chance. Glencross, Morrison, and Backlund led the way for the Flames in Corsi.

Glencross actually had a good game for himself, generating several chances and potting one on a slapshot past Michal Neuvirth (which deflected off Brian Fahey's stick). Just his one bad penalty seemed to unravel the Flames' discipline--Calgary opened it up a bit, took some more penalties, and got burned, badly.

The main takeaways from this game: strong PKing (including of a lengthy 5-on-3, not even giving the Flames a half-decent scoring chance), a PP revival (thanks to an apparently ~95% if not 100% Mike Green), and still reliable goaltending. Bruce Boudreau finally benched his big guns in the third.

Oh, and less Erskine-Fahey, please. They couldn't defend against the dump-and-chase all night.

Scoring Chances for NHL Game Number 20154

Team	Period	Time	Note	WSH						Opponent
CGY	1	19:21	Iginla backhand	14	21	22	30	52	55	3	12	18	28	34	40	5v5
CGY	1	19:18	GOAL Jokinen deflection	8	19	27	28	30	74	4	10	13	17	28	34	5v5
WSH	1	18:13	Goalmouth scramble, Kiprusoff save on Chimera	4	10	15	25	30	44	4	10	11	17	28	34	5v5
CGY	1	16:33	Power move to net	14	21	22	27	30	74	3	5	15	24	34	44	5v5
WSH	1	14:50	PP Green wrister	8	19	28	30	52	55	4	10	13	17	28	34	5v5
CGY	1	14:32	SH Glencross 2-on-1	14	21	22	30	52	74	5	6	20	24	34		5v4
WSH	1	14:09	PP Ovechkin one-timer	8	19	21	28	30	52	5	6	20	24	34		5v4
CGY	1	13:20	SH 2-on-1	8	14	22	25	30	74	3	4	11	34	40		5v4
CGY	1	10:27	Giordano with screen	26	30	39	52	55		5	8	10	13	17	34	4v5
CGY	1	8:56	GOAL Glencross slapshot	4	10	15	25	30	44	6	8	11	20	29	34	5v5
CGY	1	7:35	White 3-on-2	4	21	28	30	52		3	4	12	18	34	40	4v5
CGY	1	5:56	Neuvirth splits to stop cross-crease pass deflection off Carlson\'s skate	8	19	28	30	55	74	4	11	20	24	28	34	5v5
WSH	1	4:38	GOAL Backstrom PP on great feed from Green	8	19	21	28	30	52	4	20	24	28	34		5v4
CGY	1	3:58	Big rebound, Morrison tries to jam it in	4	10	15	25	30	44	3	5	8	11	20	34	5v5
WSH	2	17:27	Backstrom misses open net	8	19	21	28	30	52	4	24	28	34			5v3
WSH	2	16:19	GOAL AO PP one-timer	8	19	21	22	30	52	4	6	8	34			5v3
WSH	2	16:07	GOAL AO PP wrister	8	14	25	28	30	52	5	6	11	34	40		5v4
CGY	2	15:12	Glencross 3-on-2 one-timer	15	25	26	27	30	74	6	8	11	20	29	34	5v5
WSH	2	9:33	GOAL Bouwmeester giveaway, Semin to Green for an 08-09 style wrister (Sarich own goal soon thereafter)	8	19	28	30	52	55	4	10	13	17	28	34	5v5
WSH	2	6:07	GOAL Semin 2-on-1 in slot	8	19	27	28	30	74	4	11	15	20	28	34	5v5
CGY	2	4:56	Tanguay one-timer	4	10	15	25	30	44	6	12	18	29	35	40	5v5
WSH	2	1:37	GOAL Steckel breakaway, PS	4	15	30	39	74		5	8	10	13	17	35	4v5
CGY	3	18:44	Iginla tries to stuff a loose puck	14	21	22	27	30	74	6	12	15	18	29	34	5v5
CGY	3	14:20	Iginla 3-on-2	8	15	28	30	52	55	4	5	12	18	34	40	5v5
WSH	3	13:32	Chimera 1-on-1	4	10	15	25	30	44	3	5	15	24	34	44	5v5
CGY	3	10:58	Backlund fans all alone in slot	10	15	25	27	30	44	6	8	11	20	29	34	5v5
WSH	3	7:34	Fleischmann breakaway	14	21	22	27	30	74	6	8	11	20	29	34	5v5
CGY	3	5:46	Tanguay tip while being tripped	14	21	22	30	55	74	6	12	18	29	34	40	5v5
WSH	3	1:51	Laich can\'t settle a bouncing puck on 3-on-2	21	22	25	27	30	44	6	10	13	17	29	34	5v5
CGY	3	1:00	Iginla misses net from low slot	4	10	14	15	30	74	3	12	18	28	34	40	5v5

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
4	J. ERSKINE	13:40	2	4	0:00	0	0	4:00	1	1
8	A. OVECHKIN	14:21	3	3	2:45	3	1	0:00	0	0
10	M. BRADLEY	10:46	2	5	0:00	0	0	0:22	0	0
14	T. FLEISCHMANN	12:18	1	5	1:30	1	2	0:45	0	0
15	B. GORDON	11:19	2	7	0:00	0	0	3:48	1	0
17	D. KING	9:02	0	0	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
19	N. BACKSTROM	12:58	3	2	1:27	2	0	0:28	0	0
21	B. LAICH	12:53	2	4	1:20	2	1	3:18	0	1
22	M. KNUBLE	11:43	2	4	1:18	0	2	2:35	0	0
25	J. CHIMERA	9:39	3	5	1:18	1	1	1:41	0	0
26	M. HENDRICKS	8:11	0	1	0:01	0	0	0:55	0	1
27	K. ALZNER	16:23	3	5	0:00	0	0	1:26	0	0
28	A. SEMIN	13:00	3	3	1:39	3	0	0:47	0	1
30	M. NEUVIRTH	44:49	7	13	2:57	3	2	9:18	1	2
39	D. STECKEL	8:38	0	0	0:00	0	0	4:03	1	1
44	B. FAHEY	11:41	3	4	0:00	0	0	0:39	0	0
52	M. GREEN	15:17	2	2	2:13	3	1	4:37	0	2
55	J. SCHULTZ	15:39	2	4	0:19	0	0	4:53	0	1
74	J. CARLSON	17:25	2	7	0:55	0	2	2:55	1	0

Period	Totals		EV		PP		5v3 PP		SH		5v3 SH
1	4	10	2	6	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0
2	6	2	2	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0
3	3	5	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	13	17	7	13	3	2	2	0	1	2	0	0

I'll have the post on Fenwicks and Corsis up later this week, since the Caps don't play until Wednesday.