Capitals vs. Penguins Recap: Caps Can’t Shake Off Rust in 0-4 Loss

Plus: The third line was consistently good. Consisting of Milano-Strome-Phillips, they were fast, creative, and aggressive. They created the most scoring chances for the Caps.

Minus: The special teams were bad for the Caps. Two of the Pens goals came on that man disadvantage and the Pens had a handful of other choices they didn’t convert. Then the Caps PP looked like it did last season, very stagnant. There was some great new looks in the pre-season but for some reason we didn’t see that tonight.

Key Moment: The turning point was probably the Pens’ first goal. There was a faceoff in the Caps zone and off a win the puck went to Alexander Ovechkin who could have easily settled the puck but he…