Uh, hey, Jose, the shot — the eventual game-winner from Thomas Holmstrom — is on
over that-a-way. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)
Red Wings 3, Capitals 2: There is no denying the the Washington Capitals might be the most talented team in the NHL. But all that talent means little if it isn’t deployed with a little bit of discipline. Because of a couple of sloppy penalties, the Caps dropped their third straight game after a promising start to the season. With defenseman Mike Green in the box on a hooking call late in the third period, Detroit’s Thomas Holmstrom took a pass from Pavel Datsyuk and fired a wrister over Jose Theodore’s pad side to put the Red Wings into the lead for good. The Wings were typically snippy defensively, working hard to back-check against the Caps big guns; as a result, Washington’s big Ovechkin-Backstrom-Semin combination was held to but one assist — in comparison, the trio had produced an incredible 29 points in the first four games of the year. Matt Bradley and Brendan Morrison lit the lamp for Washington’s tallies.
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