Round 1 Game 2: Series - Caps Lead 1-0
Sat Apr 13, 2019 Carolina Hurricanes @ Washington Capitals
Place: Capital One Arena
Time: 3:00 p.m. ET
TV: NBC, SN, TVAS
Radio: 106.7 The Fan, Caps Radio 24/7
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Last Game: Thu Apr 11 Capitals Won 4-2 against Hurricanes
Next Game: R1G3 Mon Apr 15 7:00 p.m. Capitals @ Hurricanes
 8-Ovechkin | 19-Bäckström | 43-Wilson |
| 62-Hagelin | 92-Kuznetsov | 77-Oshie |
| 13-Vrana | 20-Eller | 10-Connolly |
| 65-Burakovsky | 26-Dowd | 18-Stephenson |
| 74-Carlson | 3-Jensen |
| 9-Orlov | 2-Niskanen |
| 44-Orpik | 29-Djoos |
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| 70-Holtby (starter) |
| 1-Copley |
-- SCRATCH -- | 23-Jaskin |
| 72-Boyd |
| 34-Siegenthaler |
| 30-Samsonov |
-- INJURED RESERVE -- -- 1st Powerplay Unit -- | 92-Kuznetsov | 19-Bäckström | 77-Oshie |
-- 2nd Powerplay Unit -- | 13-Vrana | 20-Eller | 43-Wilson |
Referees: Steve Kozari (#40), Jean Hebert (#15)
Linesmen: Kiel Murchison (#79), Greg Devorski (#54)
Hurricanes LINEUP 21 -Nino Niederreiter -- 20-Sebastian Aho -- 14-Justin Williams
79-Micheal Ferland -- 11-Jordan Staal -- 86-Teuvo Teravainen
37-Andrei Svechnikov -- 48-Jordan Martinook -- 23-Brock McGinn
42-Greg McKegg -- 71-Lucas Wallmark -- 13-Warren Foegele
74-Jaccob Slavin -- 19-Dougie Hamilton
22-Brett Pesce -- 27-Justin Faulk
4-Haydn Fleury -- 57-Trevor van Riemsdyk
34-Petr Mrazek (Starter)
35-Curtis McElhinney
Scratched: 8-Saku Maenalanen, 24-Jake Bean
Injured: 64-Clark Bishop, 44-Calvin de Haan (upper body)
1st Period03:37 GOAL 19-Bäckström, assists 8-Ovechkin & 9-Orlov 1-0 WSH
09:26 GOAL 77-Oshie, assists 92-Kuznetsov & 2-Niskanene 2-0 WSH
15:54 CANES GOAL Wallmark, assists Slavin & Foegele 2-1 WSH
2nd Period16:49 CANES GOAL Aho, assists Williams & Slavin 2-2 TIE
3rd Period08:55 GOAL 43-Wilson, assists 8-Ovechkin & 19-Bäckström 3-2 WSH
15:00 CANES PP GOAL Staal, assists Hamilton & Svechnikov 3-3 TIE
OT01:48 GOAL 44-Orpik, assists 92-Kuznetsov & 77-Oshie 4-3 WSH
FINAL: 4-3 WSH
By By Cara Bahniuk and Julia Karron April 12, 2019 2:06 pm
Lars Eller takes maintenance day as he deals with apparent upper-body injury
Headline photo: NBC Sports Washington
After scoring an empty-net goal to seal the win for the Capitals on Thursday night, Lars Eller missed practice Friday to tend to an upper-body injury.
It’s the second maintenance day Eller’s needed this week.
Eller missing practice was reported by Washington Post’s Isabelle Khurshudyan. Travis Boyd filled in as the third-line center, as he did on Monday.
Head coach Todd Reirden said that Eller is expected to play again on Saturday afternoon for Game Two.
Eller’s injury first became public on Monday when he mysteriously left practice early. It was the same day that his car broke down on Glebe Road on the way to Medstar Capitals Iceplex. Fans and reporters speculated that he left the ice to deal with his car.
After practice, Reirden said that it was just “a maintenance day for him, upper-body, where no sense doing any more than we needed to today.”
Eller played over 19 minutes during Game One, including a 1:23 of ice time on the power play and nearly four minutes on the penalty kill. Eller was the fourth-leading forward in terms of TOI, coming behind only Evgeny Kuznetsov (20:37), TJ Oshie (19:59), and Tom Wilson (19:48).
During Eller’s last shift of the game, he scored the empty-net goal from nearly 120 feet away that sealed the victory despite furious pressure from the Carolina Hurricanes.
