A hot goaltender in the NHL playoffs might be the biggest difference maker in all of sports. A pitcher can steal a game, but not a series. A quarterback needs a line to block and receivers to get open. But a streaking goaltender in the playoffs can single-handedly steal a series. Last year was a prime
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April 20, 2012
There was one lesson I learned very early on covering the Capitals: look forward to the development and preseason camps, because you have a chance to interview Braden Holtby.
I had a lot of hockey learning to do at the first development camp I covered in ’09—so much, in fact, that I didn’t even realize I’d asked the director of media relations at the time, Nate Ewell, where...
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April 22, 2012
Less than a minute after Mike Knuble gave the Capitals a 3-2 lead early in the third period, the Bruins had a golden opportunity to tie the game right back up. Milan Lucic collected a bouncing puck off the end boards and quickly sent a cross-crease pass to Tyler Seguin.
The second-year forward appeared to have an open net, but rookie netminder Braden Holtby slid across just in time...
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April 21, 2012
While this may come off as a slight to Washington's Braden Holtby, the 22-year-old goaltender put together what had to have been the least impressive 44-save victory I've seen in quite some time.
Stonewalling a Boston attack headlined by 31 shots in the final 40 minutes of play en route to a series-tying victory, the ever so deceiving box score lied to you. It wasn&...
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April 20, 2012
Braden Holtby was the story of Game 4 in Washington on Thursday, but the Bruins were the authors of the tale. They created the circumstances that let the Capitals young goalie steal a game and even the series at two games apiece with Washington's 2-1 victory. "I think you've got to give him credit, he played well tonight," Bruins coach Claude Julien told NESN'...
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April 19, 2012
With the clock winding down on the Bruins in Washington, the B's suddenly found themselves with a couple extra seconds to work with thanks to a clock malfunction. Unfortunately, Boston couldn't capitalize on the mistake and the Caps have evened the series at 2-2. NESN Nation's Dan Duquette is proud of whoever runs the clock at the Verizon Center for doing his or her best...
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April 20, 2012
Holtby, Holtby, Holtby!
Through three games, the Caps had managed to hang in with the reigning Stanley Cup champions thanks to the stellar play of their rookie goaltender Braden Holtby.
Allowing only six goals on 103 shots in the opening three games, Holtby had proven to be yet another revelation in the Caps net, but as with the team's recent track record of throwing...
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April 20, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC — In their Game 3 loss to the Boston Bruins, the Washington Capitals came unhinged defensively and behaviorally, engaging the Bruins in physical battles and losing focus. Their top center, Nicklas Backstrom, was suspended for one game after a match penalty at the final buzzer. Their rookie netminder, Braden Holtby, looked shaky for the first time in the postseason...
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April 20, 2012
On Thursday night, the Bruins lost to the Washington Capitals 2-1 in regulation. Despite firing 45 shots on Cap's goaltender Braden Holtby, only one got through. Now the Bruins are headed back to Boston to face game five on Saturday. So why did the Bruins lose? For starters, once again the Bruins did not have enough traffic in front of Washington's young goalie...
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April 19, 2012
Playoff rookie Braden Holtby followed up a shaky outing with a superb one by making 44 saves Thursday night, and Alexander Semin scored the go-ahead goal, leading the Washington Capitals to a 2-1 victory over the reigning Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins that tied the first-round series at two games apiece.
Marcus Johansson put the puck past Tim Thomas less than 1 1/2 minutes...
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April 21, 2012
It isn’t then end of the first round, but we can see it from here, and Braden Holtby continues on his mission, and he continues to get attention from the press.
Why? With the “don’t worry, we’ll score more” battle of attrition between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and almost daily wait for the” who, what and why” suspension announcement from Brendan Shanahan, it...
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April 19, 2012
Raise your hand if you thought Boston was going to tie it late in the 3rd.
Credit Caps goaltender Braden Holtby who made 44 saves on the night, 31 in the last two periods.
Caps win 2-1, watch the highlights.
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April 21, 2012
(Welcome to the TD Garden for today's Game 5 match-up between the Boston Bruins and visiting Washington Capitals.)
As 45 unimpressive shots weren't enough to down Braden Holtby and the Caps in Game 4 on Thursday, the first round heavyweight tilt of a series between the B's and Caps shifts to Boston for a pivotal Game 5 showdown on Garden ice. And to put it simply,...
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April 20, 2012
This is the calm before the storm. The next two days feature seven games and all are extremely pivotal one way or the other. For your fantasy pools, this could be the night that you lose a few players for the rest of the "tournament". The obvious is once they are gone, they are gone. That is what really hurts poolies this time of year is the prospect...
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April 22, 2012
This afternoon’s game 6 loss to the Boston Bruins was to a large degree a carbon copy of the Washington’s previous five:
It was a one-goal game. This will be the first time in playoff history that a game 7 will be played where the previous six games were all won by a single goal.
It required more than sixty minutes to determine the winner. Three of the six games played...
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