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The Washington Capitals have been handed two reality checks in as many games by Western Conference opposition. The Edmonton Oilers are the latest to do so as the Cup-contending crew led by Connor McDavid found the end zone and kicked the extra point on Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

The “critical” road trip starts with the Capitals 0-2 and out-scored 10-2 in those two losses

The Capitals didn’t even really get dominated at five-on-five in this game. A lot of Edmonton’s damage came on the power play, off of rush chances, and off of really bad individual errors from the Capitals. Believe it or not, the high-danger chance tally only ended 13-12 in favor of the Oilers.

Believe it or not, the high-danger chance tally only ended 13-12 in favor of the Oilers. There is just a difference in talent between these two teams right now as Edmonton is in full contender mode and the Capitals are…retooling…or whatever the cool kids are calling it these days.

I was really happy with the effort that Washington’s young kids showed despite the lopsided final score. Particularly the play of Hendrix Lapierre and Ivan Miroshnichenko. Those two are growing in confidence on a game-by-game basis in unique ways. Miro potted his second career NHL goal on a ridiculous fadeaway snipe and showed off more of his physicality and puck pressure.

Lapierre was not daunted by the task of lining up against either Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl and without some poor bounces and Stuart Skinner going X-Games-mode on Alex Ovechkin 65 times could have ended up with multiple points.

Alex Ovechkin did take sole possession of 14th on the NHL’s all-time, point-scoring list with an assist on Connor McMichael’s goal. Per Capitals PR, Ovi has recorded 29 points (12g, 17a) in his last 28 games