Caps vs. Sharks 10-15-2009 Post-Mortem

Persistence pays off... Onto the Battle Damage Assessment...THE GOOD:A.O. with two more goals tonight. For those keeping score at home, he's now all alone in 8th place on the Caps All-Time Scoring list with 434 points. Up next in 7th is St. Calle Johansson with 474 so it is going to be awhile. And for the record, his 6th and 7th goals of the season give him 226 in his career. He's now only 171 goals behind Mike Gartner for 2nd place All-Time on the Caps Goal Scoring list.Well what do you know, we finally converted a 5-on-3! It took two tries though the first one was only 18 seconds long and losing the faceoff pretty much sealed that fate. The one goal came on one shot so at least they made it count.Semyon "The Saviour" Varlamov came on at the start of the second period due to Jose "Alvin, Simon," Theodore coming down with back spasms. The Saviour stopped 15 shots in two periods to pick up the win. That has to be good for his confidence.In addition to only...