NEW YORK — Having recently been made aware that he won 67.5 percent of his faceoffs during the opening round of the playoffs, better than any other player who was routinely entrusted by his team with that responsibility, Jay Beagle let out a sigh.
“Oh, you guys jinxed me now, so I’ll blame you two,” Beagle said to reporters, seemingly only half-kidding.
Beagle, the Washington Capitals‘ third-line center, went 56-for-83 from the dot against the New York Islanders in the first round of the playoffs, routinely holding his own against his opponent.