What A Difference A Year Makes! - Capitals @ Rangers Post Game Thoughts…

Last year when the Capitals beat the Rangers in a 7 game series, it would be really easy to say the Rangers were in it from start to finish and just barely lost (by 1 goal actually) to a very good Washington team. But the truth of the matter was this. The Rangers were never in the series. Not for any sustainable length of time. Washington put on a a brute force attack that absolutely dominated us from game 1 to game 7. The sole reason (and we have been through this many times) we were in it was because of the brilliant play of Henrik Lundqvist. Tonight was something different though. In a game which played through very much like a regular season affair, the Rangers controlled the play seemingly as often as the super powered Capitals did. Both teams had power play chances, but neither cashed in. Both teams had even strength chances, and both teams iced nearly their full rosters including a full 60 minutes for likely both teams opening night goalies. So it shouldn’t be ...