Plus: A lot was said about how excited Dylan Strome was to finally get to a real postseason series, so it was awesome to see him pick up his first playoff goal as a Cap (his third overall) to tie the game on the power play.
Minus: Officiating is always uneven in the playoffs these days, and it’s gone both against the Caps and in their favor through these first two games (…perhaps a little more skewed against, in our completely unbiased opinion). But on this one, Wes McCauley and crew went full Angel Hernandez:
This gets reviewed as a potential major on Panarin – no penalty to him, just to McMichael for roughing pic.