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Thursday, November 4, 1999
Payback time!
Sens reject nets pair in Caps' win
WASHINGTON -- Winger Glen Metropolit was just a name on a list of free-agent tryouts at Senators training camp 14 months ago.
Last night, he got a more formal introduction.
Thanks to a three-point effort by Metropolit, playing just his second NHL game for the Washington Capitals, the Senators left the nearly empty MCI Center last night with an even emptier feeling after losing 3-1.
After going winless in six straight games, the Capitals were willing to try anything last night to get their offence going. Metropolit stepped in to exact a little revenge against the Senators with his first two career goals.
Not only did Metropolit, 25, score the winner with his first at 7:22 of the second, he also salted the game away with a bullet past Ottawa goalie Ron Tugnutt in the third period.
A 'DREAM'
"This is a dream come true," said Metropolit, who had been called up from the AHL's Portland Pirates 24 hours earlier. "It was great to be called up and then to be on a line with Peter Bondra and Adam Oates was just great.
"I went to Ottawa two years ago and I thought I was ready, but I ended up in the IHL. Washington was willing to give me the chance and this has been great."
Senators GM Marshall Johnston, watching from the press box, will only intensify his search for defensive help to replace the injured Sami Salo (wrist) and Igor Kravchuk (knee) after watching this effort. The Senators struggled in their own zone.
"Two of their goals were the results of giveaways by us and we had a couple of bounces that didn't go our way," said Ottawa defenceman Wade Redden.
OFFENCE LACKING
Still, don't put all the blame on the defence. The Senators' offence went AWOL, with its top two lines stifled, and the team producing only three shots in the third period.
"We didn't create much and I don't really think we skated like we usually do," said Tugnutt, who nonetheless faced only 23 shots.
This game was uneventful until the second period when Bondra set up Metropolit for his first.
The Senators bounced right back, with good work along the boards by Bruce Gardiner setting up defenceman Patrick Traverse, whose one-timer over Capitals goaltender Olaf Kolzig's glove tied the game 1-1.
Tonight, the Senators host the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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