Did Alex Ovechkin score? He did – and welcome to The List, Georgi Romanov!
Plus: We’ve talked about this before, but the Caps have occasionally struggled with their starts. Today they had no such issue, jumping out to a three-goal lead and looking very comfortable doing so as they outshot the Sharks 17-3 in the opening frame. That’ll do.
Minus: In the second period and the early part of the third, it seemed like the Caps’ game got away from them a bit. There was a lot of rough stuff but not much in the way of offense, and they kind of left Logan Thompson out to dry before San Jose finally got one from Macklin Celebrini.