“I didn’t know it went in until I saw Jordan Staal, ‘Staalsie’ coming with his arms up yelling at me,” said Washington Capitals defenseman Jaccob Slavin. And how would he know? The puck went in between the legs of three hockey players and ultimately Logan Thompson to give the Carolina Hurricanes the win in Eastern Round 2. The shot stunned the Capitals, who had struggled the entire match, into silence inside Capital One Arena.
Carolina forwards peppered Logan Thompson’s goal with a barrage of shots. Yet, it took the one from a defenseman to finally break the stalemate in overtime. To say Washington’s coach, Spencer Carbery was upset about the performance would be an understatement. So when the media questioned the head coach about the Canes’ unbridled domination of the ice from the first buzzer, Coach Carbery made a bold statement.
“It wasn’t good, and that’s the bottom line. Our entire game was not good. And we’ll – like I said, we’ll regroup, and we’ll get ready for game two,” Carbery said during the post-game presser. The 43-year-old knows that the Canes succeeded in their game plan and dominated in the Washington Capitals’ half. So he was under no illusion that his team’s game plan failed tonight.
Head coach Spencer Carbery’s full postgame media availability following Game 1 of Washington’s Second Round set with Carolina.#CapsCanes pic.twitter.com/85CZz2uRsz
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