The Maple Leafs beat the Capitals 7 3

The Maple Leafs beat the Capitals 7-3

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The Washington Capitals had another playoff team test in the order Thursday night. The Capitals played the Toronto Maple Leafs as they sought their fifth straight win.

Michael Bunting opened the scoring and William Nylander doubled Toronto’s lead shortly after. John Carlson dangled the caps on the scoreboard, but the Leafs then scored just two more, like just ten seconds later. Add two more.

Met Tom Wilson. courting. The Leafs then scored again. Nic Dowd added one more.

The Maple Leafs beat the Capitals 7-3.

That feels appropriate because Enrique kinda sounds like he’s crying while singing in this remix.

  • That first period was one of the worst the Caps have played all season. They weren’t in it for more than five seconds. Embarrassing to be honest, but not unexpected because this Leafs team is incredibly good.
  • Ilya Samsonov gets beaten far too often from far out. William Nylander shouldn’t hit him where he did.
  • This penalty demands Tom Wilson and some of the outrage I’ve seen on social media is literally the dumbest conversation I’ve ever seen about Wilson, and there have been hundreds of those conversations over the past decade. That’s not a penalty. Muzzin pokes him, and Campbell is incredibly late out of his knick-poke check. If it doesn’t happen against the Leafs, nobody talks about it. Quite easy.
  • In the second it got worse. I don’t think I need to give any specific numbers for you to find out.
  • These goalkeepers are just brutal. Both are restricted free agents this summer and I’m not sure either of them should be the starting netminer next season. Brian MacLellan is going to have to do something… anything.
  • Wilson punched Kyle Clifford in the butt in a fight and then scored because of course he did. I hate the absolute fanfic that is sometimes written about this guy every time he makes any kind of contact with another human being.
  • John Carlson managed to stay hot in this game and scored his 15th goal of the season. This ties in with his career high, which he has now achieved three times. He has ten points in his last five games.
  • The third was the third. It was a period in a hockey game.
  • At least we have a nuggets target?
  • Seven goals for Toronto and somehow none of them from Austin Matthews.

Caps will stay in Canada and meet the Habs in Montreal. Hope it goes better than this.