The Washington Capitals have killed 13 straight penalties dating back to overtime of Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
It’s far from, say, 53 straight kills — the NHL record set by the Capitals, coincidentally, in the 1999-2000 season — but it must feel something like that right now.
After their penalty kill went a combined 4-for-8 in Games 1 and 2 and they lost twice in overtime, the Capitals turned it around, at least partly accounting for their three straight wins that wrested control of this series away from Columbus.