Iffy goals and playoffs outlook

Tarik El-Bashir, Capitals Insider, March 30, 2010:

"Well, I don't like five goals against," Boudreau said. "This has happened twice in a row and we've got to get better. There were four pretty iffy goals out there tonight."

*Alex Ovechkin took five shots on net and had eight blocked. He also skated 28:28 with an average shift of 1:21, and set a career high for assists with his 55th.

*Finally, the reunited line of Ovechkin-Backstrom-Semin certainly was fun to watch while it lasted. Boudreau broke the trio up late as the game tightened up.

"I just wanted to get a change," Boudreau said of putting the trio back together. "I thought it would liven them up a bit. I thought we had moderate success. I changed them in the last eight minutes because of risk vs. reward."

If Caps will pass the first round (they barely did it last year in game 7 when Fedorov scored) then they probably will be ok for a deep run. But with the plays like that it's a reminder of what happened last year.

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