Alexander Ovechkin stole this puck at center ice, but the Devils stole the game in overtime
on Monday night. Photo by choofly.

It was the Mike and Mike show goal-wise at the Phone Booth on Monday: Mike Green scored his first goal of the season, and Mike Knuble had a goal and an assist. But after those tallies staked the home team to a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period, the Caps stumbled, eventually losing in a shootout to the New Jersey Devils.

Despite the 2-2 regulation score and subsequent 3-2 loss after the shootout (Nicklas Backstrom was the only one to score in the shootout for the Caps), head coach Bruce Boudreau seemed more pleased after this game than the last home effort, and talked about his team’s resilience after a bad shift in the third led to the Devils equalizer.

“It’s easy to drop your head and say, ‘Woe is me, here we go again,” Boudreau said. “But they fought through a penalty – four on three in overtime – and so I thought the resilience was pretty good.”