The Capitals have their three-game winning streak halted on a night when they fail to light the lamp against an old friend in goal.
The Capitals' Tom Wilson, left, and New York Islanders left wing Pierre Engvall blow by Washington goaltender Darcy Kuemper during a New York rush in Thursday's 3-0 Islanders win at Capital One Arena. In an 82-game season, every NHL team has nights when it can’t put the puck in the net at one end of the ice and can’t keep it out of the net at the other. The problem for the Washington Capitals: Through just nine games, they’ve already had several of those nights.
Defensively, the Capitals didn’t allow much to the Islanders in the first two periods, but the visitors took full advantage of what they got. On New York’s second goal, Simon Holmstrom skated past defenseman Hardy Haman Aktell at the blue line and made a flashy move around defenseman John Carlson in the neutral zone to enter the offensive zone with speed.
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