Today at 12:30 p.m. ET, the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers take the ice at Madison Square Garden in New York City for Game 2 of their Eastern Conference Round 2 best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series.
Washington will look to take a 2-0 series back to the nation's capital with it while New York hopes to even things up on home ice.
The Capitals took Game 1 of this series in thrilling fashion with a 2-1 score on Thursday night.
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Game 1 between these two teams seemed destined for overtime, but Alex Ovechkin found Joel Ward all alone in front and he beat Henrik Lundqvist for the game-winning goal with 1.3 seconds left in regulation.
The Rangers came out flying at the beginning of the game and had several chances to beat Washington netminder Braden Holtby, but were stifled each time and couldn't put any second opportunites home.
The Capitals will hope for a better start to Game 1.
"We need to improve our start and eliminating their second chances [against Holtby]," defenseman Brooks Orpik said via NHL.com. "It's important to manage the puck and make them go 200 feet."
It was a frustrating ending to Game 1 for New York as after Ovechkin scored the opening tally of the game, Jesper Fast's deflection off of his skate tied things up at 1-1 late in the third period, only for the Rangers to collapse at the end.
Ward was partly all alone in front because the Rangers expected a penalty to be called on Nicklas Backstrom for his hit on Rangers defenseman Dan Boyle, but a whistle never blew.
New York will look to simplify its game heading into Game 2.
"Let's just go play hockey, go win battles, make plays," Martin St. Louis, who replaced the injured Mats Zuccarello (suspected concussion) on the top line with Rick Nash and Derick Brassard told NHL.com. "Are there plays after the game that you want back? A hundred percent. Everybody wants plays back. You can't. Learn from it."
Nash would like to get going as despite having four points in the postseason (one goal, three assists), he's hardly looked like the same player who scored 42 tallies in the regular season.
Nash is one of four players for New York with four points as he joins Brassard (team-best three goals, one assist), Carl Hagelin (two tallies, two helpers) and captain Ryan McDonagh (one marker, three assists).
Backstrom and Ovechkin have led Washington with seven points off of three goals and four assists apiece while Ward, their linemate on the top trio, has found the back of the net twice and added three helpers for five points.
Defenseman John Carlson (one goal, four assists) also has five points.
In the blue paint, Holtby stopped 31 of 32 shots faced in Game 1 for the Capitals while Lundqvist turned aside 27 of the 29 attempts on him.
Holtby is 4-3 with a 1.54 goals-against average and a .947 save percentage for Washington this postseason while Lundqvist is 4-2 in between the pipes with a 1.61 GAA and a .938 save percentage.
The Capitals look for a 2-0 lead while the Rangers hope to even things up when the puck drops on Game 2 and some matinee action live from Madison Square Garden in New York City as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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