GDT #36 Caps at Red Wings L 4-2

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December 29 vs Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena
Time: 5:00
TV: Monumental Sports
Radio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7

Washington Capitals 24-9-2
PP% 22.3(12th)  PK% 83.3(6th)  Faceoff% 50.2(19th)
Detroit Red Wings 13-18-4
PP% 22.8(11th)  PK% 68.8(31st)  Faceoff% 50.5(16th)

Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Protas 21
McMichael 24 - Dubois 80 - Wilson(A) 43
Mangiapane 88 - Eller 20 - Vrana 13
Duhaime 22 - Dowd 26 - Raddysh 16

Sandin 38 - Carlson(A) 74
Fehervary 42 - Roy 2
Chychrun 6 - van Riemsdyk 57

Lindgren 79
Thompson 48 - backup

PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Chychrun, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, McMichael, Vrana, Dubois, Sandin

scratched:
Miroshnichenko 63
Alexeyev 27
McIlrath 52

LTIR:
Milano 15 - upper body
Backstrom 19 - hip - season
Oshie 77 - lower back - season

Red Wings anticipated lines:
Veleno 90 - Larkin 71 - Raymond 23
DeBrincat 93 - Copp 18 - Kane 88
Tarasenko 11 - Compher 37 - Berggren 48
Rasmussen 27 - Kasper 92 - Fischer 36

Chiarot 8 - Seider 53
Edvinsson 77 - Petry 46
Gustafsson 56 - Holl 3

Lyons 34
Talbot 39 - backup

tonight’s zebras:
Graham Skilliter 24, Steve Kozari 40
Kyle Flemington 55, David Brisebois 96

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-visit-motown-in-2024-road-finale

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x1186

scoring summary
1st period:
Chariot from Seider at 3:19
Kane PPG from Gustafsson and Raymond at 6:44
Ovechkin(17) from Chychrun and McMichael at 12:04
DeBrincat from Kane at 12:35
Raymond from Larkin and Veleno at 14:18
2nd period:
no goals
3rd period:
Dowd(10) from Raddysh and Duhaime at 10:27

Caps lose 4-2

[BlackIce]

Ovie's return to the team is a plus for so many reasons besides what he brings to the table.  It allows Carbery to re-establish the Duhaime/Dowd/Raddysh 4th line, which is where they belong, stops having to juggle Radish and Mangiapane into and out of the top 6, resets Mangiapane into L3, which seems to be his natural fit.  And with he and Eller on L3 there is enough defensive responsibility for them to carry Vrana on that line, which is good because Vrana has been chipping in offensively lately.  And of course, we get to see if the Protas/Ovie chemistry can be re-established.  It is really the Protas fit on the first line that has allowed the forward lines to sort themselves out as well as I've ever seen it on a Caps team.  Everyone SEEMS to be where they ought to be, and there are no glaring weaknesses.

[Mickstix]

Don't know if you guys saw this or not, but on pregame they were talking salary and Tarik mentioned the "cap era and if you go to the site to see salary...." Alexa said "yea, no more CapFriendly" And Tarik said.. "Go to CapWages"  (Might be the same site we talked about in the other thread, Im too lazy (and my memory is too bad) to go look it up. 


Capwages.com

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[Surreylily]

Evening.   

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Evening.   

I’m surprised you are awake this time of day

 

[Surreylily]

I’m surprised you are awake this time of day


 

Me too.  this is about nap time......    Im trying to re-adust back to hockey time.

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PK time

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[Mickstix]

We find our legs.. Or we die!! Look like complete  at the moment..


WAKE UP LIL!!  Oh, never mind..


Trap Game Alert!!!

[Mickstix]

See, that was over a month ago!! I'm lucky to remember last week!! 

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That was two weeks ago ya burn out

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nother PK . .

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GOOOAAALLLL

OVECHKIN

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[Mickstix]

That was two weeks ago ya burn out

See, told ya! 

[Mickstix]

Fuckin Ovi!!!!!

Then more 

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