The Caps really, really needed a win. You may not have been able to tell by the way they started the game, but they stepped it up in the second, kept the pressure on in the third, and finally managed to get their first win of the road trip to snap a four-game losing skid.
Plus: Seeing a 90-game goalless drought come to an end tonight is a huge plus from this one, as Hendrix Lapierre finally scored in the second period to tie the game at one. As Joe Beninati put it (in a way only the great Joe B.