The Washington Capitals topped the Toronto Maple Leafs by a score of 3-1 at Scotiabank Arena on Friday night to improve to 18-6-2 (.731 points percentage) this season. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren made 16 saves in his third-straight win and Washington’s franchise-record eighth straight on the road where they have outscored the opposition by a combined score of 42-18.
Washington’s Lines
Aliaksei Protas – Dylan Strome – Tom Wilson
Connor McMichael– Pierre-Luc Dubois – Taylor Raddysh
Hendrix Lapierre – Lars Eller – Andrew Mangiapane
Brandon Duhaime – Nic Dowd – Ivan Miroshnichenko
Martin Fehervary – John Carlson
Rasmus Sandin – Matt Roy
Jakob Chychrun – Trevor Van Riemsdyk
Lindgren
Logan Thompson
Scratched: LW Jakub Vrana, D Dylan McIlrath, D Alexander Alexeyev
Injured: LW Alex Ovechkin (fractured fibula), LW Sonny Milano (upper-body), C Nicklas Backstrom (hip), RW T.J. Oshie (back)
Toronto’s Lines
Matthew Knies — Auston Matthews — Mitch Marner
Pontus Holmberg — John Tavares — William Nylander
Nicolas Robertson — Fraser Minten — Steven Lorentz
Niikita Grebenikin — Connor Dewar — Ryan Reaves
Morgan Rielly — Philippe Myers
Oliver Ekman-Larsson — Christopher Tanev
Simon Benoit — Connor Timmins
Anthony Stolarz
Joseph Woll
Scratched: Alexander Nylander, D Jake McCabe, D Marshall Rifai
Injured: C Max Domi (lower-body), LW Max Pacioretty (lower-body), C David Kampf (lower-body), LW Calle Jarnkrok (lower-body), C Bobby McMann (lower-body)
First Period
Scoring
- N/A
Stats
- 8-5 Washington in shots
- Both teams had two power plays
- 7-5 Toronto in hits
- 4-3 Toronto in blocked shots
- 7-5 Toronto in giveaways
- 1-0 Toronto in takeaways
Second Period
Scoring
- 1:06, 1-0 Washington: Dowd tipped Roy’s blast from the right point past the blocker of Stolarz in front of the net after Roy caught the puck rimming around the boards. Dowd has scored in back-to-back games and now has three goals in his last four games. Roy has tallied an assist in both games against Toronto this season.