"📸: Dr Kat from #crashers The Washington Capitals and Ottawa Senators met for the first time this season on Saturday night. After celebrating captain Alex Ovechkin playing in his 1,500th career NHL game, the Capitals tried to take both games of their back-to-back with travel. Dylan Cozens, a noted Caps killer, opened the scoring for the Senators. Shane Pinto made it 2-0 after he was pushed into Lindgren by Jakob Chychrun with the puck. Make it four after Cozens and Nick Cousins added two more."
"The Capitals were not ready to play when the game started. Ottawa controlled the majority of the first period, creating six five-on-five high-danger chances and heading into the first intermission up one. Without some heroics from Charlie Lindgren, the Caps are probably down three or four after 20 minutes. They didn't have a shot on goal until John Carlson threw a clearance on net about eight minutes into the game."
"The Capitals had two significant injury scares in the first period. Matt Roy was bloodied by a puck to the face, but ultimately returned. Dylan Strome needed help off the ice after a collision with the boards on a power play, returned, but then left again at the end of the period. He was then ruled out of the rest of the game. Terrifying. Let's hope he's alright."
Ottawa Senators defeated the Washington Capitals 7-1, scoring early and controlling play. Dylan Cozens opened the scoring and added another goal; Shane Pinto and Nick Cousins also scored, while Drake Batherson added goals in the third. Trevor van Riemsdyk ended Linus Ullmark's shutout attempt with a net drive. Alex Ovechkin played his 1,500th NHL game. Washington struggled to generate chances, recording no shot on goal for several minutes and producing zero life in the second period. The Capitals suffered two injury scares when Matt Roy was cut by a puck and Dylan Strome left after a board collision.
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