The Narrative: Game of Inches, O Shi*... and Trending

1. Game of Inches

Monday night’s Game 4 was one of those games that the Caps were lucky to even have a chance to win... and unlucky to lose.

Make no mistake, the Caps did not “deserve” Game 4:

And yet there they were, up 2-1 with under four minutes left in the third period and a likelihood of winning at north of 90 percent, per MoneyPuck (that percentage got as high as 95.6 before Florida tied it). With Florida’s goalie pulled, two shots probably made it very difficult for Garnet Hathaway to sleep last night:

First, Hathaway’s 129-foot potshot at the empty net, a shot that MoneyPuck gives a 64 percent chance of going in (Evolving-Hockey says 65%) and, well, didn’t.