The puck went through Braden Holtby’s legs and the Capitals goaltender slammed his stick onto the ice in anger. On a breakaway, Holtby had just given up the game-clinching goal in the Capitals’ 4-2 loss Tuesday to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Adding to his frustration, the goal scorer was Nikita Kucherov — who used a similar no-look move at the All-Star game in January to beat Holtby, again on a breakaway.
“The key to getting better is to learn from your mistakes and obviously I didn’t do that,” Holtby said. “I was just trying to play it patient.