Quinn Hughes, Vancouver Canucks Nip Washington Capitals, 2-1, Snap Washington’s 12-Game Point-Streak

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The Washington Capitals misplaced to the Vancouver Canucks by a rating of 2-1 at Rogers Enviornment on Saturday to fall to 33-11-5 (.724 factors proportion) this season and 2-1-0 on their season-long five-game highway journey. Washington’s profitable and point-streaks ended at six and 12 (9-0-3), respectively. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren made 23 saves within the loss.

Washington’s Strains

Connor McMichael — Dylan Strome — Alex Ovechkin
Aliaksei Protas — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom Wilson
Taylor Raddysh — Lars Eller — Ethen Frank
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd —Andrew Mangiapane

Rasmus Sandin — John Carlson
Martin Fehervary — Matt Roy
Jakob Chychrun — Trevor Van Riemsdyk

Lindgren
Logan Thompson

• Scratched
  • LW Jakub Vrana
  • D Dylan McIlrath
  • D Alexander Alexeyev
• Injured
  • LW Sonny Milano (upper-body)
  • C Nicklas Backstrom (hip)
  • RW T.J. Oshie (again)

After making 22 saves for his first shutout of the marketing campaign in a 3-0 win over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday, Lindgren began consecutive video games for the primary time this season with Thompson, a Calgary native, set to get the nod on Tuesday on the Calgary Flames, based on head coach Spencer Carbery.

Vancouver’s Strains

Danton Heinen — J.T. Miller — Brock Boeser
Nils Hoglander — Elias Pettersson — Linus Karlsson
Jake DeBrusk – Pius Suter — Conor Garland
Max Sasson — Teddy Blueger — Phil Di Giuseppe

Quinn Hughes — Filip Hronek
Elias Pettersson — Carson Soucy
Derek Forbort — Vincent Desharnais

Kevin Lankinen
Thatcher Demko

• Scratched
• Injured
  • RW Kieffer Sherwood (lower-body)
  • C Dakota Joshua (leg)
  • D Noah Juulsen (undisclosed)
• Suspended

First Interval

Scoring

• 12:23, 1-0 Vancouver: After getting a cross by Hoglander from the precise half-wall, Hughes walked round Duhaime from the highest to the slot and backhanded a shot over the blocker of Lindgren.
  

  Quinn Hughes opens the scoring with a backhanded magnificence! 🐳 pic.twitter.com/50FakylVuG

  — Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) January 26, 2025

Stats

• 13-12 Washington in pictures
• .737 Washington on faceoffs
• Washington didn’t rating on their first two energy performs
  • Vancouver had two alternatives
• 7-3 Vancouver in hits
• 6-2 Vancouver in blocked pictures
• 6-6 in giveaways

Graphs: Pure StatTrick

Second Interval

Scoring

• 1:24, 2-0: Hughes walked the blueline and let a wrist shot go from up high that handed a maze of site visitors and the blocker of Lindgren after Boeser banked a cross off of the wall to him from down low.

HOW DID QUINN HUGHES FIND THE SPACE ON THIS GOAL 😳

He’s on hatty watch 👀 pic.twitter.com/ydKxAUVFqz

— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) January 26, 2025

Stats

• 23-21 Washington in pictures
  • together with 11-8 within the third
• .588 Washington on faceoffs
• Each groups had two energy performs
• 15-9 Vancouver in hits
• 12-11 Vancouver in blocked pictures
• 11-11 in giveaways

Third Interval

Scoring

• 12:31, 2-1: After Protas’ level shot was stopped, the puck leaked out whereas Lankinen tried to cowl the puck. Dubois was proper there to stuff the rebound into an open cage. Dubois has scored all three of Washington’s targets towards Vancouver this season and three in his final 4 video games. Dubois turned the ninth Capital to achieve the 10-goal mark this season. The Capitals are one among two groups within the NHL to have 9 gamers with 10 or extra targets (additionally Carolina Hurricanes). Protas prolonged his level streak to 4 video games (2-3-5). With the secondary helper, McMichael has recorded 4 assists in his final 4 video games.

#ALLCAPS 1-2. NEEDED THAT ONE. DUBOIS CLEANS UP THE LOOSE PUCK FOR A MUCH NEEDED GOAL pic.twitter.com/5HzQJjVfEk

— x – Capitals Replays 🍁 (@capsreplays) January 26, 2025

Stats

• 32-25 Washington in pictures
  • 10-4 Washington within the third
• .545 Washington on attracts
• 24-14 Vancouver in hits
• 19-15 Vancouver in blocked pictures
• 19-15 Washington in giveaways

Washington’s lead over the Carolina Hurricanes for first place within the Metropolitan Division remained at seven factors, however Washington has a recreation in hand.

Washington’s 12-game level streak tied for the seventh longest in franchise historical past and marked the group’s first level streak of 12 or extra video games for the reason that 2019-20 season (13 from 10/16/2019–11/13/2019: 11-0-2).

Subsequent recreation: Tuesday at Calgary (9 PM ET, Monumental Sports activities Community in-market, ESPN+ out-of-market).

By Harrison Brown