except for the last two minutes where the shutout became a possibility, that was a boring game
I was there, and yuh, it was a meh game for the most part.
Caps gave away two clean breakaways in the first 5 minutes, but Holtby had the answers or the game might have been quite a bit different.
And that had to be the WORST 5 on 3 PP I've ever seen. I don't think the guys completed a single pass on it. What a disaster.
Backstrom's goal was ALL Carlson. Backstrom just put his stick on the ice, Carlson found a tiny seam and hit it. The replays showed what a narrow window he had to make that pass.