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GDT #29 Caps vs Sabres W 4-2
alta:
December 14 vs Sabres at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports
Radio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7
Washington Capitals 20-6-2
PP% 20.9(17th) PK% 83.5(5th) Faceoff% 50.4(17th)
Buffalo Sabres 11-14-4
PP% 14.1(30th) PK% 80.7(14th) Faceoff% 49.3(21st)
Caps anticipated lines:
McMichael 24 - Strome(A) 17 - Raddysh 16
Protas 21 - Dubois 80 - Wilson(A) 43
Lapierre 29 - Eller 20 - Mangiapane 88
Duhaime 22 - Dowd 26 - Miroshnichenko 63
Fehervary 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Sandin 38 - Roy 3
Chychrun 6 - van Riemsdyk 57
Thompson 48
Lindgren 79 - backup
PP1: Strome, Wilson, McMichael, Chychrun, Carlson
PP2: Dubois, Raddysh, Mangiapane, Miroshnichenko, Sandin
scratched:
Vrana 13
Alexeyev 27
McIlrath 52
IR:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - lower body
LTIR:
Milano 15 - upper body
Backstrom 19 - hip - season
Oshie 77 - lower back - season
Sabres anticipated lines:
Peterka 77 - Thompson 72 - Tuch 89
Benson 9 - Kulich 20 - Cozens 24
Greenway 12 - McLeod 71 - Zucker 16
Malenstyn 29 - Krebs 19 - Aubé-Kubel 96
Johnson 33 - Byram 4
Samuelsson 23 - Power 25
Gilbert 8 - Clifton 75
Luukkonen 1
Reimer 47 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Mitch Dunning 20, TJ Luxmore 21
Derek Nansen 70, Kilian McNamara 93
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2024/12/46591/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-14-24/
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-tangle-with-sabres
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x6206
scoring summary
1st period:
Zucker from Greenway and McLeod at 1:36
Wilson(12) PPG from Carlson and McMichael at 17:09
2nd period:
Wilson(13) PPG from Chychrun at 5:11
Kulich from Byram and Thompson at 7:24
3rd period:
Strome(19) from Carlson and Raddysh at 11:05
Chychrun(9) ENG from Carlson and Dubois at 18:30
Caps win 4-2
richkrt99:
Oh Lahwdy...not another Trap game, and this one at HOME!
Wake up LIL!
alta:
New Jersey won this afternoon, they are now 1st in the metro. The Caps could fix that tonight.
richkrt99:
--- Quote from: alta on Saturday December 14, 2024, 04:57:44 PM Eastern ---New Jersey won this afternoon, they are now 1st in the metro. The Caps could fix that tonight.
--- End quote ---
True Dat, but NJ has played 5 more games than the Caps too.
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: alta on Saturday December 14, 2024, 04:57:44 PM Eastern ---New Jersey won this afternoon, they are now 1st in the metro. The Caps could fix that tonight.
--- End quote ---
Meaningless though, because the Caps have 5, count 'em 5, games in hand on NJ.
It may be time to start reconsidering our preconceptions about this team, with 1/3 of the season over and a significant stretch of games without Ovechkin behind us.
The team seems to have improved two glaring team weaknesses: They have pulled into the middle of the pack in PP% and face-off%, so they aren't getting overmatched in those areas as they were previously. And my (and perhaps others') thinking about our goaltending may have to be rethought. I have considered our goaltending as "eh, OK" but not really top-drawer, and it was a reason I was questioning whether we ought to push to add to the team to try to give us a better chance for a deep playoff run. But at this point in the season we are 5th in the league in fewest goals allowed, and our team save % of .904 is 7th in the league, and only slightly less than the .913 that leads the league. Scoring is up in the league, I think because of a combination of rules and goalie equipment changes, and so it appears that our goaltending, at least at this point, IS plenty good enough that it may not be a drawback at all in the playoffs. And I don't think there is any question at all that we lead the league in goaltender VALUE; i.e., performance relative to cap cost of our goaltending.
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