Of all the players across the decades of Washington Capitals hockey who could ever score an overtime goal and win a playoff game, 38-year-old defenseman Brooks Orpik would have among the longest odds in Las Vegas.
But that’s why it’s playoff hockey. Anything can happen.
Orpik slapped in the game-winner 1:42 into overtime as the Capitals survived a threat from the Carolina Hurricanes, winning 4-3 to take a 2-0 series lead in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Nicklas Backstrom, T.J. Oshie and Tom Wilson scored for Washington.