GDT #52 Caps at Maple Leafs @ 5pm

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January 29 vs Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena
Time: 5:00
TV: NBCSW
Radio: 106.7 FM

Washington Capitals 26-19-6
PP% 20.5(19th)  PK% 81.8(7th)  Faceoff% 49.7(19th) 
Toronto Maple Leafs 30-12-8
PP% 24.4(8th)  PK% 79.4(16th)  Faceoff% 52.6(6th)

Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Oshie(A) 77
Mantha 39 - Kuznetsov 92 - Sheary 73
Milano 15 - Backstrom 19 - Johansson 90
Aubé-Kubel 96 - Eller 20 - Hathaway 21

Gustafsson 56 - van Riemsdyk 57
Orlov 9 - Jensen 3
Irwin 52 - Fehervary 42

Kuemper 35

PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Backstrom, Johansson, Gustafsson 
PP2: Strome, Sheary, Kuznetsov, Orlov, van Riemsdyk 

scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Protas 59
Alexeyev 27
Wilson 43 - day to day - lower body

IR/LTIR:
Dowd 26 - lower body
Brown 28 - knee
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face/ear

Leafs anticipated lines:
Bunting 58 - Tavares(C) 91 - Marner(A) 16
Jarnkrok 19 - Kerfoot 15 - Nylander 88
Engvall 47 - Kampf 64 - Anderson 28
Aston-Reese 12 - Holmberg 29 - Simmonds 24

Rielly 44 - Brodie 78
Giordano 55 - Holl 3
Sandin 38 - Liljegren 37

Samsonov 35
Woll 60 - backup

tonight’s zebras:
Wes McCauley 4, Marc Joannette 25
Jonathan Deschamps 80, Mark Shewchyk 92

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-take-on-leafs-in-toronto/c-340539480

scoring summary
1st period:
Backstrom(1) PPG from Johansson(13) and Sheary(18) at 17:17
2nd period:
Bunting PPG from Tavares and Marner at 1:29
Rielly from Bunting and Tavares at 7:00
Nylander from Jarnkrok and Sandin at 10:45
Engvall from Brodie and Kampf at 14:20
3rd period:
Aston-Reese from Holmberg and Giordano at 16:47

Caps lose 5-1 

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It does not appear the Caps have put Willy on IR. It’s kinda pointless anyway right now unless they need to call up someone from Hershey.


and.. the Leafs have a couple key injuries as well. Most notably Matthews.

[Mickstix]

Damn, we have 10 days off after Tuesday's game? Is that the whole league or just us getting extra, before/after the ASG?

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it’s the Caps bye week plus the all star break

[Ozzies09tc]

it’s the Caps bye week plus the all star break

Blues play monday then not til feb 11th

[Ozzies09tc]

The caps have more hits this period than my blues have all season... God my blues suck...

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PP GOOOAAALLLL

BACKSTROM

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I should be amazed that the NHL didn’t make the Boston vs Canes game a national broadcast. But this is the NHL.

[Mickstix]

Be cool if Mantha scored a goal this month. 

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Be cool if Mantha scored a goal this season . 

yep

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I didn’t see the so called hold against Aubé-Kubel that gave the Leafs the PPG.

Not that I didn’t see the play, or the replay.

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goalie change, Lindy in

[Mickstix]

Oh well. We can't score anyway, so 2-1 was probably all they needed. Perfect example, Eller enters the zone 3 on 2, doesn't see a sweet pass/wide open play, so turns it back toward the blue line to "setup".. Kuzy does the same thing.


Lots of people call for Lavi to be fired and I really didn't think it'd make a difference, but if he can't adjust something to start producing some goals, they might as well find someone new. New philosophy.

[Mickstix]

What a beating! 2 was all they needed. lol Team needs to hold a garage sale.

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Caps looked good in the 1st, complete shit show after that

[richkrt99]

Yeah, that was pretty embarrassing, but sadly I was expecting an ass-whooping in Toronto.
I agree with Mick - it was pretty much over at 2-1, and at 3-1 was just a coffin nail with more to follow.  I watched the remainder on FFWD.
When we play our very best hockey, we can compete with decent teams for a stretch, but we can't maintain that for 3 full periods much less multiple games or a long portion of the season.


I thought the A-K penalty hold was a phantom also.  I even rewound it a couple times to see if it was earlier in the play.


Can't wait to see what this team looks like after the long all-star break and bye week.  Maybe we can get Willy healthy and have enough practice to try and get some forward lines going.


Maybe a Leprechaun will ride in on a unicorn and shit gold coins for me too.