The Sunday Scaries hit the Washington Capitals hard early on this matinee game, giving up struggling Vancouver star Elias Pettersson’s first goal of the season less than a minute into the game, giving the Canucks a lead that would expand by 3 more goals by the second period. Washington would chip away at the lead with a late period Ryan Leonard PPG in the second, and would find themselves in position to pull off a miracle 4-goal comeback late, but it just wasn’t meant to be this afternoon.
Plus: Even before things got interesting, things didn’t look quite as bad on the ice as the scoreboard would suggest.