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The Rangers overcame a 3–1 series deficit to eliminate the Capitals in seven games. Joel Ward scored with 1.3 seconds left to give Washington a 2–1 win in game one. [69] The Rangers took game two, 3–2, as Chris Kreider and Dan Boyle recorded first-period goals and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 30 out of 32 shots. [70]
The 2015–16 Washington Capitals season was the 42nd season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on June 11, 1974. [2] The season began its regular games on October 10, 2015, against the New Jersey Devils. [3] This was the first of five consecutive Metropolitan Division titles for the Capitals.
The Capitals–Rangers rivalry is a National Hockey League (NHL) rivalry between the Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers. Both teams compete in the NHL's Eastern Conference's Metropolitan Division , and there is only a 230 miles (370 km) drive between the cities of Washington, D.C. and New York .
Tom Wilson scored two goals and Alex Ovechkin added one more as the Washington Capitals notched three goals in a four-plus minute span of the second period before holding on for a 5-4 victory over ...
After winning game 5, the Capitals had a chance to clinch the series in Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, but the Islanders won game 6 to send the series to a deciding game 7 in Washington, which the Capitals would go on to win and defeat the Islanders, setting up a match-up against the Presidents' Trophy-winning Rangers in the second round ...
The game between the Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers quickly went off the rails on Wednesday night. As soon as the puck was dropped, multiple sets of gloves were dropped and fights ...
The Presidents' Trophy-winning Rangers will draw Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in the first round of the NHL playoffs. 3 things to know about Rangers vs. Capitals first-round NHL ...
The teams have had batches of playoff series such as three series between 1991–1994 and five series between 2009 and 2015. The teams met in the 2024 playoffs, with the Rangers sweeping the Capitals in four games. Overall, the Rangers have won six of the teams' ten playoff matchups, including the last four.