"It was a great hockey game from our standpoint," said Washington Coach Spencer Carbery, who spent two years as an assistant with the Maple Leafs. "As good as we've played all year, from staying with it, on the road, the place that we're playing. They're playing as well as anybody in the National Hockey League right now at home."
"From the drop of the puck, I thought that's about as good of a road game as you're going to find," Lindgren said. "Making all the right plays. Didn't give them too much. I thought we were all over the puck tonight."
Both sides had chances - center Pierre-Luc Dubois created a dangerous one for his line early in the frame, and William Nylander had a breakaway for Toronto midway through - but the stingy defenses kept most of the chances from reaching the goaltenders.
On such a momentum streak, the Capitals' tradition of keeping the lineup reader's role until a loss proved successful again, with Peter Mangiapane reading the lineup prior to both games in Florida and Toronto.
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