Carolina Hurricanes vs Washington Capitals

Regular season · Tuesday, March 15, 2016 · Verizon Center

CarolinaHurricanesAway

1–2

Final/OT

SOG 26–31

WashingtonCapitalsHome

CSN-DC · FS-CR

Game summary

The Washington Capitals beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 in overtime on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at Verizon Center. The Capitals outshot the Hurricanes 31-26.

Goals came from Justin Williams, Jordan Staal and Alex Ovechkin.

Braden Holtby made 25 saves on 26 shots for the win; Eddie Lack stopped 29 of 31.

Goals	1st	2nd	3rd	OT	T	SOG
CAR	0	1	0	0	1	26
WSH	0	1	0	1	2	31

Three stars

Scoring

2nd period

Justin Williams (21)Jason Chimera (17)0–101:30 WSH
Jordan Staal (18)Unassisted1–110:50 CAR

OT period

Alex Ovechkin (42)Evgeny Kuznetsov (50)1–201:38 WSH

Team stats

CARWSH

26Shots on goal31

45%Faceoff %55%

0/2Power play0/1

2Penalty minutes4

17Hits29

8Blocked shots17

4Giveaways12

10Takeaways13

Penalties

2nd 03:09Nicklas Backstrom · tripping2 min
2nd 17:45Michal Jordan · tripping2 min
3rd 03:02Tom Wilson · hooking2 min

Season series

Carolina Hurricanes

Carolina Hurricanes skaters

11Jordan StaalC	1	1	+1	2	2	0	0	44	18:51
14Nathan GerbeC	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	–	14:55
16Elias LindholmC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	18:31
18Jay McClementC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50	13:35
20Riley NashC	0	0	-1	3	3	0	0	50	15:23
24Brad MaloneC	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	–	13:03
25Chris TerryL	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	–	11:09
34Phillip Di GiuseppeL	0	0	+1	2	1	1	0	–	16:47
42Joakim NordstromC	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	–	17:40
48Brody SutterC	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	–	10:16
49Victor RaskC	0	0	-1	4	0	0	0	67	16:28
53Jeff SkinnerC	0	0	+1	4	1	1	0	50	16:07
5Noah HanifinD	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	–	20:46
7Ryan MurphyD	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	–	18:55
46Trevor CarrickD	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	–	16:34
47Michal JordanD	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	–	18:43
54Brett PesceD	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	–	22:32
74Jaccob SlavinD	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	–	22:50

Carolina Hurricanes goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
30Cam WardG		0	0	0	–	00:00
31Eddie LackG	O	31	29	2	.935	61:27

Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals skaters

8Alex OvechkinL	1	0	1	0	7	3	1	0	–	18:21
14Justin WilliamsR	1	0	1	+1	4	0	2	0	50	15:39
25Jason ChimeraL	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	–	14:45
92Evgeny KuznetsovC	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	62	17:16
10Mike RichardsC	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	29	11:30
19Nicklas BackstromC	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	2	53	17:03
26Daniel WinnikC	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	–	11:00
43Tom WilsonR	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	–	11:20
65Andre BurakovskyL	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	–	14:54
77T.J. OshieR	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	–	15:50
83Jay BeagleC	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	100	18:10
90Marcus JohanssonL	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	67	15:41
2Matt NiskanenD	0	0	0	0	2	4	2	0	–	25:27
4Taylor ChorneyD	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	0	–	14:20
9Dmitry OrlovD	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	–	21:34
27Karl AlznerD	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	–	23:03
44Brooks OrpikD	0	0	0	0	1	7	4	0	–	19:39
88Nate SchmidtD	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	–	15:27

Washington Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
31Philipp GrubauerG		0	0	0	–	00:00
70Braden HoltbyG	W	26	25	1	.962	61:33