Later in the second stanza, the Caps doubled their lead on another goal that required further review. Washington again scored on a sustained offensive zone shift, moving the puck around the zone with some precision passing and with Evgeny Kuznetsov quarterbacking from high in the Buffalo zone.
Kuznetsov eventually let go of a shot, but it missed wide and bounded back toward the front of the net. From behind the net, Carlson reached in with his stick and jimmied the puck toward the goal line, where Sabres forward Kyle Okposo appearaed at first glance to have made a successful last second sweep of the goal line to keep the puck from going across.
Play continued, and was blown dead 15 seconds or so later when Kuznetsov was deemed to have committed a hi-sticking foul. At that point, the powers that be took a second look and saw that the puck had clearly gone over the line to put the Caps up 2-0 at 13:33 of the second.