WASHINGTON — Goaltender Braden Holtby and the Washington Capitals will try to cool off Auston Matthews and the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night at Capital One Arena.Mathews has nine goals and three assists in five games and the Maple Leafs are off to a 4-1 start.In a 5-3 win at Detroit Thursday night Dalton Prout Jersey Womens , Matthews scored twice on the power play for the Maple Leafs, who were 2-for-4 with the man-advantage. They’re 7-for-14 with the extra man so far this season.Article continues below ...“We have a lot of guys who can finish on this team, especially when we are on the power play,” Toronto center John Tavares told NHL.com. “When I get the puck, I’m just trying to get it to an open player. If that’s (Matthews), it is an automatic goal right now.”Tavares had a career-high four assists against Detroit — giving him 10 points — and Mitchell Marner and Morgan Rielly each had a goal and an assist. Frederik Andersen made 26 saves.Matthews has scored in five straight games and is one game shy of tying Sweeney Schriner’s 74-year-old team record for most consecutive games at the start of a season with at least one goal. He’s recorded multiple points in all five games.Defenseman Rielly has 12 points (three goals, nine assists) in his first five games, the best five-game start by an NHL defenseman in modern history. The previous high was 11 points by Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins in 1973-74.“I think it’s great for all the guys that are doing some scoring right now Elias Lindholm Jersey Womens ,” Leafs coach Mike Babcock told the Toronto Sun. “In the end, though, it’s about winning every night and it doesn’t really matter on our team who does the scoring as long as we score enough to find a way to win. I think the guys have been real good about that.”The last player to record nine goals in the first five games of the season will also be on the ice Saturday night as Washington winger Alex Ovechkin accomplished the feat last season.Ovechkin and company didn’t manage any goals when they suffered their first regulation defeat of the season — 6-0 to the New Jersey Devils Thursday night.Playing the second of back-to-backs, the Stanley Cup champs fell behind early and the Devils poured it on late.“I think it’s going to be like that all season,” Washington’s Lars Eller told NBCSportsWashington.com of the Devils’ all-out effort. “Teams are going to want to beat the champs and show their best. They got a lot of energy going tonight and we didn’t have as much of it.”The Capitals (2-1-1) entered the game having scored a franchise-best 18 goals, the most in their history through the first three games of the season.Back-up goalie Pheonix Copley made 30 saves for the Capitals against New Jersey.“First period especially, he was really good,” Caps defenseman Matt Niskanen told NBCSportsWashington.com. “He didn’t get a very good effort in front of him. He played hard and made some big saves in the first when it was still close. The rest of us got to do better.”Washington opens a three-game homestand against the Maple Leafs Alan Quine Jersey Womens , who are finishing a four-game road swing.Holtby is 8-3-1 with a 2.05 goals against average and .934 save percentage versus the Maple Leafs, while Andersen is 3-1-1 with a 2.88 GAA and .909 save percentage against Washington. RALEIGH, N.C. — Cam Ward is back in Raleigh, but this time it’s something different.The veteran goalie is with the visiting team.Ward will suit up for the Chicago Blackhawks for Monday night’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena.Article continues below ...“I don’t know what to expect,” Ward said. “It will feel like I’m almost coming home for a short visit.”Ward played his first 13 NHL seasons with the Hurricanes prior to the offseason developments when he signed with the Blackhawks.He figures to be mostly a backup this season to Corey Crawford. He didn’t play last week against the Hurricanes in Chicago.Ward said there’s a long list of thank-yous to deliver when he considers his time with the Carolina organization. He said he’s bound to be emotional for this game.“I anticipate it to be strange and emotional at the same time,” Ward said. “I’m very grateful for my time, my 13 years, that I was able to play in Carolina.”That included receiving the Conn Smythe Trophy as 2006 Stanley Cup Finals MVP Petr Mrazek Jersey Womens , which resulted in the only championship for the Hurricanes.“You win a Stanley Cup and you’ll remember where you were when you hoisted it and it was on that ice,” Ward said.This is part of a trip with fathers of Blackhawks along for the action. So there will be other Ward family on hand.Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour was the captain of the Hurricanes on the title-winning team that counted on Ward for so many big moments.“He helped to get this organization on the right track,” Brind’Amour said. “He was just a professional, all the way through the good and bad.”The Carolina organization is expected to have a tribute for Ward as part of Monday night’s game.Crawford was in the nets for Chicago’s latest outing, so it reasons that the Blackhawks turn to Ward to try to shed a seven-game losing streak.The Hurricanes are in a funk as well with a 1-4-2 mark in their last seven games. The visit from Chicago will mark the second contest in Carolina’s six-game homestand.The Hurricanes have outshot opponents in all except one game, but they continue to be frustrated with results. They took a 4-3 shootout loss Saturday night to visiting Detroit.“That’s what it always comes down to,” Brind’Amour said converting on the scoring chances. “That’s been our Achilles heel. It hasn’t been other areas in our game, it’s that we don’t finish. That’s hard. It will come with some of these guys because they’re very Jordan Schroeder Jersey Womens , very talented.”The Hurricanes failed to protect a 3-1 third-period lead against the Red Wings.“These are lessons that hurt,” Brind’Amour said. “We’re not quite there. Mistakes are going to happen, we just have to limit them.”The Blackhawks are still in their first week under new coach Jeremy Colliton, who replaced fired Joel Quenneville last week. They’re 0-2-0 under Colliton, including a 4-3 home setback Thursday to Carolina and a 4-0 loss Saturday at Philadelphia.Chicago left winger Brandon Saad has missed one game with an arm injury, but he hasn’t been ruled out for Monday.