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The Noon Number: Playoff Beast

3 - Number of postseason shutouts recorded by Braden Holtby in his career, including last night's blanking of the Flyers. That moves him into second in that department in franchise history, passing Semyon Varlamov and Don Beaupre (two apiece) and trailing only Olie Kolzig's six.

His Game 1 whitewash also marked the third time a Caps' goalie has ever posted a shutout in the opening game of a series, and the first since Kolzig did so in the series opener against Tampa in 2003. (Olie's also got the first such shutout, blanking the Penguins two years earlier.