The Washington Capitals didn’t score first Monday night, but it didn’t matter in the end. The Caps had scored the opening goal in 10-straight games entering the contest with the Hurricanes. Despite going down by one early, Washington fought back and walked away with the 6-1 victory.
Jordan Stall scored on the power play just about five minutes into the game, but that was all Carolina would muster the rest of the night. Dmitry Orlov scored a power-play goal about seven minutes later and started the Washington barrage of goals.
It was once again the secondary scoring that paced the Caps.