Henceforth, the District of Columbia shall be known to Cats fans as Carter Country!
After winning Game 4 at Capital One Arena with an overtime marker, Carter Verhaeghe did it again, scoring 2:46 into the fourth period to push the Florida Panthers past the stubborn Washington Capitals by a 4-3 count, getting the Cats to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 26 years.
With the Panthers applying a heavy forecheck, Ben Chiarot threw the puck down low to Claude Giroux and he found Verhaeghe in the slot. The pass wasn’t the greatest so Verhaeghe had to use his skate to position the puck and then backhanded it by Ilya Samsonov for his third straight game-winning goal.