from Gene Collier of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
If it’s possible to gain control of an NHL playoff series by losing a hockey game, the Washington Capitals might well have done precisely that in Game 3 Monday night.
Nobody in the visiting locker room at Consol Energy Center on the day before Game 4 would say anything close to such a thing, of course, but the notion that the Capitals somehow turned these Eastern Conference semifinals inside out, even as they were getting strangled by the brilliant rookie goalie Matt Murray, did not exactly get laughed out of the room.
“Potentially,” allowed Washington defenseman Matt Niskanen, the former Penguin. “I know we don’t like the result [Monday] night, but I know we feel a lot better than we did after Game 2, so that’s important.
“We found out some things that are gonna work for us.”
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