Vasilevskiy victorious: Bolts beat Caps 3-0

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The Washington Capitals ended their early-season winning streak with an unfortunate loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night.

Mitchell Chaffee tipped Nick Paul’s shot to give Tampa the lead five minutes into the night. Cut to early in the third, when Brayden Point doubled that distance, wrapping up a give-and-go with Nikita Kucherov. Not a minute later, Conor Geekie scored his first NHL goal, a gorgeous one-timer.

If you’re reading closely, you may have noticed by now that none of those goal scorers are Caps. Check out you with the eagle eye. Andrei Vasilevskiy earned his first career shutout against Washington in 21th appearance against them.

Caps lose 3-0.

#ALLCAPS No clue how Tampa is on the powerplay and we're not. Total BS pic.twitter.com/NsF4X5xGNd

— x – Capitals Replays 🍁 (@capsreplays) October 27, 2024

Ilya Samsonov vs. Vitek Vanecek as VGK look to keep their old friends in San Jose winless.

— SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) October 27, 2024

locked in #joebsuitofthenight pic.twitter.com/gVv5fD9RYT

— RMNB (@rmnb) October 26, 2024

Andrei Vasilevskiy is a real good goalie. Sometimes that’s all you gotta say. Sometimes the reason you get the L is just that simple. Eventually, Washington’s 14.4 shooting percentage during five-on-five (second best in the league behind Columbus, who I would not worry about) had to drop. Maybe let’s just be grateful it dropped in one night.

Then again, maybe there was another fell force suffocating the Caps this night.

The Caps will head back to DC now to host the New York Rangers on Tuesday, by which time I hope the Dodgers will have a 3-0 series lead over the Yankees.

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