Doug Weight has seen good things from Jaroslav Halak of late, even if the results hadn’t been there. Weight also showed some defiance on Monday morning when asked why he was giving Halak a third straight start with the red-hot Capitals coming to Brooklyn.
“I feel good about both our goalies,” Weight said. “No one else does. I don’t really care.”
People may start to care more if Halak plays the way he did Monday night. He turned aside 31 Washington shots, including a couple of point-blank saves on Alex Ovechkin, to lead the Isles to a 3-1 win in their first game home after a mostly unproductive four-game road trip.