Over the course of the season, the Washington Capitals have shown resilience and have been able to find ways to win, regardless of the situation. Tuesday's meeting with the Chicago Blackhawks just wasn't one of those games. A fatigued Capitals team, which not only played just 24 hours before but experienced flight issues that shook up their schedule and led to travel on their game day, surrendered three unanswered goals and couldn't come back in a 3-2 loss to the Blackhawks.
Here are all the takeaways from the defeat as D.C. drops to 7-2 after losses this season: The Capitals got off to a solid start against Chicago, and it was all thanks to standout plays from Pierre-Luc Dubois and Andrew Mangiapane.
Dubois has been heating up of late for Washington, and early in the first, he outraced Louis Crevier and capitalized on a fumbled puck before taking the puck to the net and sneaking it past Arvid Soderblom. The 27-year-old now has points in five of his last six and 15 points in his last 18 games overall, and he is on pace to finish his first year in the District with 58 points. Later in the frame, Andrew Mangiapane, who missed Tuesday's tilt with illness, chose to put on a show of his own, going coast-to-coast and toedragging past T.
J. Brodie before sliding the puck past Soderblom to make it 2-0 for D.C.
It marked Mangiapane's seventh goal of the season. After the first 20 minutes, things went south for the fatigued Capitals, who not only played just 24 hours before but experien.
