WASHINGTON -- Playoffs or regular season, New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist has been absolutely perfect the past three times he has faced Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals. So what if the Rangers were struggling under first-year coach Alain Vigneault? Lundqvist felt good about his teams chances Wednesday night, then backed that up with his 46th NHL shutout in New Yorks 2-0 victory over Washington. "I felt like we came in here with a lot of confidence that we can beat them," the Swedish goalie said, "even though weve had a rough start." It was his third shutout in a row against familiar post-season foe Washington, including Games 6 and 7 of the teams first-round playoff series in May. New York and Washington have met in the playoffs four times in five years, splitting those series. "The games against the Rangers are always tight," Capitals forward Brooks Laich said. "We knew that going in. We knew it wasnt going to be a shootout." Lundqvist only needed to make 22 saves, thanks in part to 22 blocked shots by his teammates. By the end, Rangers fans in the crowd were chanting, "Hen-reek! Hen-reek!" "Tonight Hank was on, and we didnt give them a whole lot," said Brad Richards, who assisted on goals by Ryan Callahan and John Moore less than two minutes apart in the second period. One key sequence both teams pointed to came in the first period, when the Capitals had a 5-on-3 advantage for 55 seconds after hooking calls on Anton Stralman and Taylor Pyatt. One chance went awry when Ovechkin snapped his stick in two while trying to get off a shot. Another was wasted when some tic-tac-toe passing set up Joel Ward for a close-range, backdoor try, but he pushed the puck against the side of the net. "We had an empty net on the 5-on-3. We didnt bury it," Capitals coach Adam Oates said. "Its a different ballgame if Wardo puts that in." Vigneault chose to credit his goalie after the Rangers won for only the second time in six games this season. Their season-opening road swing still has three more stops. "To go down 5-on-3 and get a couple of nice saves from Hank -- that sort of helped us get a little momentum," Vigneault said. Unable to generate much offence, even with their formidable power play, three-time NHL MVP Ovechkin and the Capitals fell to 2-5. The Capitals entered the night second in the NHL on the power play, at better than 35 per cent, but went 0 for 4. Ovechkin was credited with more than a third of his teams shots -- a game-high eight -- but didnt add to his goal total of six. "We have our chances out there and we just, to be honest with you, cant score," Ovechkin said. New York dominated the second period, outshooting Washington 21-6 and getting the puck past Braden Holtby. Moore scored his first goal of the season 12:05 into that period during 4-on-4 play, after Ovechkin was sent to the penalty box for slashing Derek Stepan during a short-handed breakaway. Callahan then knocked in his third of the season -- and third in two games -- by cutting across the crease to beat Ovechkin and defenceman John Carlson to Richards centring pass. "Our (defensive) zone, our neutral zone, everything was a lot more in sync," said Richards, who has four goals and three assists the past five games. "You could tell we were on the same page a lot more." Notes: New York lost its preceding three games by a combined 20-5. ... Rangers D Michael del Zotto was scratched because of illness. ... The Rangers wont play their first home game until Oct. 28 against the Montreal Canadiens, New Yorks latest home opener in a non-lockout season since 1947. ... New York LW Rick Nash missed a third consecutive game because of a head injury from a hit by San Joses Brad Stuart last week. 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I might be in 10 different countries in a week, but Ill turn up at the track and kill it.The Formula 1 Gossip column Despite the criticism of his off-track lifestyle, Hamilton has won the last two World Championships and remains locked in a dogfight for this years World Championship with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg after winning the United States and Mexican GPs last month. No matter what he is doing, if he turns up and produces a great result, then it doesnt matter what he is doing away from the race track because he is prepared in his mind and physically, Sky F1s Marc Priestley told this weeks F1 Report: Brazil preview. I think you have to judge it over three or four seasons and then perhaps look back. This is a long season, the longest we have ever had, and at the start of the season we saw him jetting off all over the place between races and you think maybe because it is a long and tiresome season that will come to play near the end.But in Austin and Mexico he has turned up like a new man, so you cant really judge him. Marc Priestley and F1 film maker Mario Muth believe they aren’t in a position to judge Lewis Hamilton over his lifestyle. The former McLaren mechanic also likened Hamiltons lifestyyle to that of Kimi Raikkonen, with whom he worked at Woking.dddddddddddd.I remember when I was at McLaren and Kimi Raikkonen was at the height of his partying days and people criticised him left, right and centre, Priestley added. Yet at that time he was at the top of his game and one of the fastest drivers I have ever worked with. An established fan of social media, Hamilton frequently documents his own off-track activities for his fans, and F1 filmmaker Mario Muth suspects other drivers could be engaging in similar behaviour but with a lower profile. Whatever makes him faster, I think it is fine, said Muth. We just see more of what he is up to, Im not sure the others dont do the same thing. But he is just out there posting everything, so it gives people a reason to talk about it.He is obviously creating an image outside of F1 and these things help to do it, but we never saw Kimi - well, once, falling off a boat - but never really saw what he is doing. Nowadays it is very different. And Priestley believes globetrotting may be how Hamilton deals with the stress of being a modern F1 driver.Some things work for some certain people, he added. You could argue that you have to relax after a busy and stressful F1 weekend. 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