In the last setting before playoffs, Alex Ovechkin spent time on ice with a different and popular teammate: young sons Sergei and Ilya.
Washington Capitals invited Ovechkin and his teammates to bring family members to ice to enjoy the Easter Sunday skate the day before the Playoff opener.
Washington will face Montreal Canadiens, who visits the seven best Eastern Conference quarter -final series on Monday night.
“Ovechkin, who recently transcended Wayne Gretzky as the leader of NHL as the leader of all times in the goals, said,” Spend an extra day with the family, this is a good thing. ” “You can’t focus too much the day before a match.”
It doesn’t take long to return to the intensity.
Washington hopes to start a deep Playoff Run after winning 51 matches in the normal season and winning 111 points of the conference. The capitals finished on the metropolitan department and will face a Canadiens team that encountered 91 points and seized the second and last wild card quay of the conference.
Despite their awards, the capitals should prove that a sleepy end to the normal season will not pass the end of the season. Washington had such a great advantage in the ranking that he was able to listen to several veterans in stretch, which played a role in the team who lost eight times in the last 12 matches (4-7-1).
Capitals Advanced Dylan Stoma said that the keys of playoff success are simple.
“I think we want to play a really good defense, we’re trying to find the middle season form we’ve been a while ago and we’re trying to be sharp for playoffs.” He said. “I think it’s definitely inside us. We play a good hockey for the last little time.
Montreal followed a very different path for the aftermath of the season. Canadiens were looking for most of the normal season, but he finished strongly to demand the last playoff point.
Orum I am proud of the group, Can Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis. “When the break, we had 2 percent of our chances of playoff. … Then we finish the year in a 7-1-2 run and we’re trying to stay in front of Columbus, which was really hot.
“For me, you have 2 percent chance, you still have a chance.”
Spencer Carbery, the capital coach, did not announce the start Goaldender on Sunday.
“You will learn on the night of Monday, Car Carbery said.
Logan Thompson comes out of a upper body injury that costs the last seven games of the normal season, but returned to full training sessions. This season, an average of 2.49 goals and .910 savings percentage went 31-6-6. In his career, there is a 3.04 GAA and a 2-1 -0 record with the percentage of savings.
The other option is Charlie Lindgren, which goes 20-14-3 with the percentage of 2.73 gaa in the normal season and the percentage of savings. 3-1-0 with a .899 savings percentage against 2,51 GAA and Canadiens lost four of the 31-year-old playoff views. Four of the last season, in the first round when the New York Rangers was sweeping the covers.
Montreal is expected to begin clearly to Sam Montembeault. This season, 2.82 GAA and .901 savings percentage went 31-24-7. 3.49 GAA in his career against Washington and 2-3-0 with the percentage of savings.
Canadiens’s crime is supported by Caufield (the team’s best 37 goals) and Nick Suzuki (30 goals, team high 89 points).
They met once before the capitals and Canadiens playoffs. This was in the 2010 Eastern Conference quarterfinals, where Montreal was 3-1 behind, but returned to win the series in seven games.
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