Time for Game 2, boys and girls and babes! It’s been two days since Game 1, have we all recovered? No? Well too bad, because playoff hockey waits for no one! The Washington Capitals took Game 1 from the Boston Bruins on Saturday night with a nailbiter of an overtime victory that included a less than ideal injury to goalie Vitek Vanecek. Enter noted playoff goaltender Craig Anderson, starting in his first postseason game since 2017. In front of Anderson, the Capitals looked like this:
Game 2 Capitals lines vs Bruins:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Mantha
Sheary-Eller-Raffl
Sprong-Oshie-Wilson
Hagelin-Dowd-Hathaway
Orlov-Carlson
Dillon-Schultz
Chara-Jensen
Anderson— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) May 17, 2021The Bruins would be without the services of Jeremy Lauzon, who caught a Justin Schultz shot with his right hand on Saturday night and exited early, immediately testing Boston’s defensive depth.