CALGARY — The Washington Capitals’ harm woes worsened Saturday evening in a 5-2 loss to Calgary on the Scotiabank Saddledome, with beginning goaltender Darcy Kuemper and defenseman Martin Fehervary leaving the sport with upper-body accidents.
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Earlier than Kuemper’s exit, Fehervary left the sport halfway by means of the second interval and didn’t return after he was checked into the boards by Milan Lucic. Fehervary, who was dominated out for the remainder of the sport with an upper-body harm, appeared to favor his left arm/shoulder on his approach to the locker room.
Capitals Coach Peter Laviolette mentioned each Kuemper and Fehervary could be evaluated Sunday in Edmonton forward of Monday’s conflict with the Oilers. Fehervary was noticed sporting a sling on his left arm after the sport.
Each accidents occurred with the Capitals (10-12-4) trailing 2-1 after Andrew Mangiapane put Calgary forward 1:35 into the second interval together with his low shot from the circle. Washington had its probabilities within the third interval to seek out the equalizer, however couldn’t discover a gap towards Flames netminder Dan Vladar (27 saves).
As a substitute, Adam Ruzicka put the Flames up 3-1 with a easy breakaway previous Capitals backup goaltender Charlie Lindgren (seven saves) with 6:21 left within the third. Mangiapane scored his second objective of the evening lower than a minute later for the Flames’ fourth objective of the evening.
John Carlson scored with 1:06 remaining, however Washington’s late-game push was too little, too late. Elias Lindholm scored an empty-netter with lower than 4 seconds left to provide the sport’s closing rating.
The Capitals at the moment are 1-2-1 by means of 4 video games of their six-game highway journey. Washington finishes the journey Wednesday in Philadelphia.
“We’ve had a subsequent man up mentality for a pair years now however when you might have that you simply want everybody going, you want everybody choosing it up for the blokes which can be out,” T.J. Oshie mentioned. “It looks like when we’re not enjoying our greatest we don’t have that full workforce effort.”
Blake Coleman put the Flames up 1-0 at 18:03 of the primary interval together with his snipe from the fitting circle previous Kuemper. It was the Flames’ first objective towards Kuemper in 78 minutes this season.
Conor Sheary tied the sport at 1 with 33.1 seconds left within the first interval. Sheary sniped it from the fitting circle for his second power-play objective in as many video games. He has 9 targets this season.
Washington tinkered with its lineup, plugging younger prospect Alex Alexeyev into the lineup instead of Matt Irwin. Irwin changed into an on a regular basis participant within the final month, filling in for Dmitry Orlov, who was injured in early November. Orlov, who’s on injured reserve, has missed 12 straight video games.
“It’s been a bit wrestle figuring out and serving to [Orlov] get by means of this harm,” Capitals Common Supervisor Brian MacLellan mentioned Saturday. “It’s lingered on rather a lot longer than anybody anticipated. Appears to be headed in a constructive route which is why he’s come out for the journey. We’ll see the way it goes over the subsequent couple of days; hopefully we’ll get him in a recreation.”