Charlie Lindgren stopped 31 photographs for his second shutout of the season and the Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 4-0 Saturday evening to snap a three-game shedding streak.

Sonny Milano, Anthony Mantha, Tom Wilson and Nicolas Aube-Kubel all had objectives to assist the Capitals spoil former coach Peter Laviolette’s return to Washington together with his new workforce and transfer into third place within the Metropolitan Division.

“Especially against that team, against our ex-coach, (that win) means a lot,” Aube-Kubel mentioned.

Igor Shesterkin completed with 24 saves because the Rangers had been shut out for the primary time this season and misplaced consecutive video games for the primary time.

“I think it’s something we had early on is kind of that competitiveness and a little bit of the edge, that separation maybe, I think that’s gotten a little complacent,” New York captain Jacob Trouba mentioned. “Maybe let off the gas a little bit, and that’s something we’re going to find out. We can’t win that way, so we’ve got to get back to that fighting attitude, a little bit of anger in our game.”

Laviolette spent three seasons with the Capitals earlier than parting methods with the workforce in April and becoming a member of the Rangers two months later.

“It was not good from the start to the finish, so no sense dissecting it here publicly,” Laviolette mentioned of the loss. “We’ve got a game tomorrow night, and we’ll need to be a lot better.”

Milano, a wholesome scratch on Thursday, obtained the Capitals on the board simply 43 seconds into the sport, firing a cross-ice feed from Martin Fehervary previous Shesterkin.

Washington, which had been struggling to seek out constant offense this season, then scored three objectives within the second interval.

Mantha obtained to the crease and redirected Evgeny Kuznetsov’s feed to the entrance previous Sheterkin at 1:43 to place the Capitals up 2-0.

Wilson, who has 5 objectives in his final 5 video games, made it 3-0 at 5:35 together with his ninth of the season.

Aube-Kubel, who hadn’t scored since Nov. 10, capped the scoring together with his second with 8:08 left within the center interval. It gave Washington at the least 4 objectives in regulation for the second straight recreation after totaling 9 objectives within the earlier six video games.

“It’s been pretty balanced the whole year. We have all lines with an identity, all lines going out there with a role and getting it done,” Wilson mentioned. “When you have young guys chipping in and then you get that balanced scoring, it definitely helps you put a few together and get a good team win.”

Lindgren, going through his brother Ryan, on the NHL degree for the primary time, stole the present in web, shifting rapidly to disclaim the Rangers a number of high quality possibilities. He stopped youthful 3 times en path to his fourth profession shutout.

“We’re very competitive but we definitely don’t take for granted the opportunity that was, being able to be on the same NHL ice together, that was obviously really cool,” Charlie Lindgren mentioned, including, “He’s a competitive kid. He’s a great hockey player, too. It was fun to win tonight.”

UP NEXT

Rangers: Host Los Angeles on Sunday evening.

Capitals: At Chicago on Sunday evening.

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