The Caps had to stretch for it, but they got their tenth straight win on Sunday. Photo by
clydeorama.

You’d have to be a Vulcan to begrudge Alex Ovechkin his Wayne Gretzky arm pump after scoring what turned out to be the game-winning goal against Tampa Bay on Sunday.

The Caps had just blown a 2-0 lead late in the third. With 8:28 left in the game, the clock paused to give the ice crew time to clear the area around the net, and the Unleash the Fury video was booming on the jumbotron. Facing what could be the Caps’ first loss in ten games, head coach Bruce Boudreau had a chance to talk with the players on the bench, though apparently what he said at that point was unrepeatable.

“Can’t say it on camera, really,” chuckled Brooks Laich after the game, adding that Boudreau basically told the team they brought this on themselves (the Caps had taken two sloppy penalties in the third).

Caps’ defenseman Tyler Sloan either blocked out Boudreau’s language or was sitting on a different bench, because he had a ready answer when asked what the coach told the team at that point in the game.

“[Stay] in their face,” Sloan said was the message Boudreau was trying to get across.