"At times during the second period Saturday night, all that stood between the Capitals and a much closer game with the Detroit Red Wings seemed to be the presence of 35-year-old Tomas Vokoun. The veteran netminder, whose play appears to improve with each outing, stopped 15 of 16 shots in the middle stanza against the Red Wings en route to Washington's 7-1 drubbing.

Vokoun made 32 saves in the victory but it was during the second period, when the Red Wings ramped up pressure on four power plays in the span of less than six minutes — a stretch that included a pair of 5-on-3 opportunities — that the Czech native put on arguably his best performance of the year. "