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Backstrom fired a wrist shot inside the left
post for the 11th shootout winner of his career. T.J. Oshie
scored in the first round for the Capitals, but Elias Pettersson
evened things up in the second round to set the stage for
Backstrom's game-winner.
Michal Kempny and Evgeny Kuznetsov each scored two goals, and
Lars Eller added a short-handed goal and an assist. Washington
scored the final four goals of regulation over an eight-minute
stretch that began with one second left in the second period.
Rookie Ilya Samsonov had 29 saves.
Tim Schaller scored two goals, and Brock Boeser had a goal and
an assist to lead the Vancouver. Pettersson and Jake Virtanen
also scored goals, and Bo Horvat added two assists for the
Canucks. Jacob Markstrom finished with 24 saves.
Washington, playing the second half of a back-to-back that
started with a 4-3 overtime loss at Edmonton on Thursday night,
jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 3:18 mark of the first period.
Kuznetsov took a pass from Jakub Vrana while cutting in front of
the net and beat Markstrom with a wrist shot on his blocker
side.
Vancouver then scored five consecutive goals to go up 5-1.
Boeser started the streak with a power-play goal at 5:33, and
Schaller followed two minutes later with a short-handed goal to
give the Canucks a 2-1 edge after the first period.
Pettersson made it 3-1 early in the second period with his third
goal of the season. Schaller then batted in a rebound at 13:59
for his third of the year, and Virtanen followed 55 seconds with
his second of the season.
But Kuznetsov cut it to 5-2 with a wrist shot that just beat the
buzzer to end the second period and start Washington's comeback.
The Capitals scored three goals in the first 7:41 of the third
period to tie it, 5-5. Eller got the first with a short-handed
goal at 1:57, and Kempny followed with two goals just 2:44
apart. Both came on slap shots from the left point that beat
Markstrom on his glove side, giving Kempny the first multi-goal
game of his career.
--Field Level Media
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