Offense wakes up as Caps beat Jets

The Washington Capitals entertained the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night from Verizon Center.  The Caps are coming off of a 1-0 win over the Edmonton Oilers from Monday night.  It was the fourth game of a season-long five game home-stand.  The Capitals would get their third straight win with a final score of 5-3.

Washington got off to a great start in the game after not being able to score the other night until the third period.  After a shot by John Carlson from the right side of the net bounced off the wall coming off a pass from Evgeny Kuznetsov, Justin Williams rebounded the puck into the net from the corner.  Williams, with that goal, is now two points shy of 600 for his career.  The goal came 1:12 into the game.  A wrist shot by Tyler Myers tied the game about five minutes later.  The Jets would take the lead 2-1 with a goal by Andrew Ladd.  Alex Ovechkin would tie the game at two with just 1:14 to go until the first intermission.  After a strong pass by John Carlson from the middle got caught in Ovechkin's skates, he used great awareness to get the puck on his stick and shot it right inside the net.  It looked like Ovi used his left leg to get the puck on the stick.  It was Alex Ovechkin's 11th goal of the season.

In the second period, the Capitals took the lead back at 10:03.  After Dmitry Orlov got the puck to Nate Schmidt from the right side, Schmidt got the puck into the middle where Nicklas Backstrom tapped the puck past Winnipeg net minder Michael Hutchinson for the 3-2 lead.  The Jets tied it on the power play as former Capital, Mathieu Perreualt got a snapshot past Braden Holtby at 13:53.  The Capitals responded at 16:22 as Orlov continued his hot streak.  Off a pass from Kuznetsov from the top of the box, Orlov buried a slapshot in the net for his third straight goal in as many nights.  Saturday night, he was like a magician with the puck as nobody could find the puck when it was actually with Orlov the entire time.  By then it was too late.  On Monday night, he was the lone player who scored as it came late in the third period.

The Capitals were looking for an insurance goal in this back and fourth game as it headed into the third period.  They got it late in third with 6:14 to go as Kuznetsov scored on a backhand.  The Capitals would win 5-3.  On "Black Friday" the Caps will return to the ice to take on the Lightning at 5:00 in the final game of a five game home-stand from Verizon Center.

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