CAPS GOALIE REPORT: STUFF HAPPENS. ISLANDERS EDGE CAPS IN S/O

The Caps had some unlucky breaks last night with numerous posts hit and an unlucky second goal on Kolzig. Kolzig did do what he had to do in the shootout stopping 2 of 3 which is about where any goalie needs to be to give his team a shot at winning it. Unfortunately Mike Comrie didn't flinch on the last shot to put the Isles over the top. See highlights and excerpts from the The Post below.



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“Up by Two, Capitals Settle for One Point”
Washington Grabs Lead, Loses Shootout: Islanders 3, Capitals 2
By Tarik El-Bashir
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 21, 2008; E01

…….Instead of finishing off Rick DiPietro and the injury-depleted New York Islanders, the Capitals, as they have so often this season, let up…..The Islanders forced the game into overtime, and Mike Comrie completed the comeback in the shootout, beating Olie Kolzig with a backhander between the pads to hand the Capitals their third defeat in four games, 3-2, last night at Verizon Center….

....Comrie scored the only goal of the shootout to clinch the Islanders' fifth straight victory. Washington, meantime, dropped to 2-4 in games decided by penalty shots and remained two points behind the Carolina Hurricanes for the Southeast Division lead….

....Islanders center Josef Vasicek forced extra time with a fluky goal at 11:09 of the third period. Vasicek had chased the puck into the corner and backhanded it on net from below the goal line, just hoping to create a scoring chance….

....Vasicek's shot hit Kolzig (17 saves) on the hip before the Washington goaltender could get to the post. The puck deflected in, tying the game at 2. "They got a lucky goal there on the second one," Kolzig said. "All the players were trying to get back to the post and cover up the post and he was able to just bank it in on me."...

....It wasn't the only miscue of the night. The Islanders' first goal came midway through the second period as a Capitals power play was winding down. Several players loafed getting back on defense, allowing Bill Guerin to hop out of the penalty box, snag a pass and race in on goal. Guerin's first shot was stopped by Kolzig, but the rebound came right back to him. He gloved it down and fired a pass to Miroslav Satan, who tapped it in... Just like that, the Islanders were back in it, 2-1.

...."We had a horrible change and we stayed out too long," Boudreau said. "I feel like we lost a point, rather than gained a point. We didn't have a ton of energy."...

.....In overtime, Semin barely missed on a wraparound attempt and Ovechkin hit the post. Then in the shootout, Viktor Kozlov, Ovechkin and Semin misfired while Comrie beat Kolzig after faking a slap shot…..It probably shouldn't have gotten to that point, considering the way Washington had come out...