WASHINGTON — So far this series, the Rangers have endured the daily exercise of discussing Alex Ovechkin and then going out and trying to neutralize him. It has all become a bit tiring, as if he is the lone Washington player they must contend with, but just as exhausting are the Capitals’ brutish forecheck and physical style.
The Capitals wore down the Islanders in the first round of the playoffs and bullied the Rangers enough Monday to generate a sequence that defined the game and produced a loser’s lament.
“I guess they bounced it better than we did,” Martin St.