GDT #45 Caps at Wild @ 8pm

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January 23 vs Wild at Xcel Energy Center
Time: 8:00
TV: Monumental Sports
Radio: 106.7 FM, Capitals Radio 24/7

Washington Capitals 22-16-6
PP% 14.2(27th) PP% 80.7(13th) Faceoff% 46.9(28th) 
Minnesota Wild 20-21-5
PP% 20.8(17th) PP% 72.8(30th) Faceoff% 46.2(30th)   
Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - McMichael 24 - Protas 21
Pacioretty 67 - Strome 17 - Oshie(A) 77
Mantha 39 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Malenstyn 47 - Dowd 26 - Aubé-Kubel 96

Fehervary 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Edmundson 6 - Jensen 3

Kuemper 35

PP1: Ovechkin, Pacioretty, Oshie, Strome, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, Mantha, Wilson, Kuznetsov,

scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Phillips 45
Bear 25
Alexeyev 27

IR:
Milano 15 - upper body

LTIR:
Backstrom 19 - hip - season

Wild anticipated lines:
Kaprizov 97 - Rossi 23 - Zuccarello 36
Foligno 17 - Eriksson Ek 14 - Boldy 12
Johansson 90 - Hartman 38 - Maroon 20
Duhaime 21 - Lucchini 27 - Gaudreau 89

Brodin 25 - Faber 7
Middleton 5 - Mermis 6
Goligoski 33 - Bogosian 24

Gustavsson 32
Wallstedt 30 - backup

tonight’s zebras:
Chris Rooney 5, Morgan MacPhee 43
Brandon Grillo 75, Ryan Galloway 82

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-resume-trip-in-minnesota

scoring summary
1st period:
Faber from Zuccarello and Rossi at 1:37
Foligno from Boldy and Eriksson Ek at 4:42
2nd period:
Johansson from Bogosian at 6:28
Mantha(13) from Kuznetsov(9) and Fehervary8) at 10:00
3rd period:
Eriksson Ek from Foligno and Brodin at 1:37
Johansson from Hartman and Maroon at 13:39
Oshie8) PPG from Carlson(24) and Pacioretty at 17:03
Mantha(14) from Malenstyn(7) and Dowd(6) at 18:24

Caps lose 5-3

[richkrt99]

Thanks Alta....always appreciated, but rarely said...thanks for thread man
And I was getting ready to look for my sleepy clock emoji 

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Lapierre was sent down to Hershey to make room for Sandin’s return tonight. That’s not who I would’ve sent down but maybe it’s because Lapirre is waiver exempt for such a move.


Bear will be the healthy scratch on D.

[Mickstix]

Carbs is shuffling the wrong deck. Needs to be finding a C to replace Kuz, whether it be via trade or call up. Gotta figure out the scoring, somehow, someway.

[Beaglefan2]

Lapierre was sent down to Hershey to make room for Sandin’s return tonight. That’s not who I would’ve sent down but maybe it’s because Lapirre is waiver exempt for such a move.


Bear will be the healthy scratch on D.

I really like Lapierre.  I hate to see him lose valuable development time here to an old guy.  Hopefully, Pacioretti will light it up and we can trade him at the deadline for a second round pick.


Regarding Bear, I think he has been alright - probably not much of a difference between him and Sundin. I've been surprised with the TVR benching as he seemed to be managements guy.

[Mickstix]

Carbs "lines" tryin to ruin mantha and wilson tonight. 

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[Mickstix]

Quick night for the boys! 

[Mickstix]

All I read about was how disappointed they were with the effort the other night.    Wonder how long before Carbs starts taking heat?

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I’m beginning to think there is a player in the locker room that’s bringing everyone else down, and things won’t get much better until he’s gone.

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GOOOAAALLLL

MOJO

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GOOOAAALLLL

MANTHA

[Mickstix]

It won't take many more of these before something changes. Kuzy, Carbs, something.

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[Surreylily]

Morning chaps.   

[Surreylily]

Oh dear.   

[Mickstix]

You missed a good one Lil. Mojo scored! 

[Surreylily]

 


In the last few minutes I've seen a dozen give-aways.   

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GOOOAAALLLL

MOJO