GDT #81 Caps at Islanders W 3-1

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April 15 vs Islanders at UBS Arena
Time: 7:30
TV: Monumental Sports, ESPN
Radio: 980 AM, Caps Radio 24/7

Washington Capitals 50-21-9
PP% 23.3(13th)  PK% 82(6th)  Faceoff% 50.3(15th)
New York Islanders 35-33-12
PP% 12.9(31st)  PK% 72.2(31st)  Faceoff%54.9(1st)

Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Beauvillier 72
McMichael 24 - Dubois 80 - Wilson(A) 43
Mangiapane 88 - Eller 20 - Leonard 9
Duhaime 22 - Dowd 26 - Raddysh 16

Sandin 38 - Roy 3
Alexeyev 27 - van Riemsdyk 57
Fehérváry 42 - McIlrath 52

Lindgren 79
Stevenson 33 - backup

PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Dubois, Sandin
PP2: Ovechkin, Eller, Mangiapane, Alexeyev, Roy

scratched:
Frank 53
Chychrun 6
Carlson(A) 74

injured:
Protas 21 - lower body
Thompson 48 - upper body

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

Isles anticipated lines:
Lee(C) 27 - Horvat(A) 14 - Palmieri 21
Tsyplakov 7 - Pageau 44 - Holmstrom 10
Engvall 18 - Cizikas 53 - Fasching 20
Martin(A) 17 - MacLean 32 - Gatcomb 16


Pelech 3 - Pulock 6
Perunovich 26 - DeAngelo 4
Dobson 8 - Mayfield 24


Sorokin 30
Hogberg 50 - backup

tonight’s zebras:
Brian Pochmara 16, Corey Syvret 23
Tommy Hughes 65, CJ Murray 68

https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/04/48133/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-4-15-25/

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x1514

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-visit-isles-in-trip-opener

scoring summary
1st period:
Strome(27) PPG from Dubois and Sandin at 8:15
2nd period:
Strome(28) from Ovechkin at 7:52
3rd period:
Pageau unassisted at 11:36
Strome(29) ENG from Wilson and Dowd at 18:49

Caps win 3-1

[Mickstix]

Almost Mixing, err Puck drop time! 


Looks like us foreigners are stuck with ESPN. 

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Chychrun and Carlson out, maintenance, or rest, or something

that’s two games in a row for Carlson

[Beaglefan2]

I'm ready for the Leonard experiment to end - although they probably promised him he would play in all these games to get him to sign. I like him as a prospect, but he is a prospect, not a sure thing.


We need to ramp it up these last few games and quit screwing around. Carbs will win Coach of the Year, but if we get blown out in the first round, an excellent year will turn into a big disappointment pretty quickly.

[Mickstix]

Well.. have the Caps feed, but it's Walton again. Starting to worry about JoeB.


So Beags, who ya putting in for Leonard? He looks as good as Frank, Bovi or Mangi to me. Not sure he's a problem.


Be cool to get some decent goaltending heading into the post season.

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PP time

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PP GOOOAAALLLL

STROME

[Rey Capalpatine]

Good guys draw first blood! 😀🤑🤩

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PK time


after not calling interference against the Islanders

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nother PP . .

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PP2 didn’t come out until it was almost over. PP2 had Eller, Alexeyev and Roy out. Makes me think it was for their shift after the PP.

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Caps up 1-0 after one

[Mickstix]

Scoring goals is quite the struggle for our group these days. Glad we got a lucky deflection.

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Apparently I missed something. Why do they only have 5 D men right now?

[Mickstix]

Eliminated Isles making us look pedestrian. 

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GOOOAAALLLL

STROME

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new career high.. 28 goals for Strome  this season

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nother PP . . .

[justwincaps]

Glad MF42 is back on the ice.   

[justwincaps]

Eliminated Isles making us look pedestrian. 

And Columbus made us look like an AHL team …… that would lose to Hershey.   


And if the Jackets keep their lead over Philly win tonight, they have to hope Carolina beats Montreal tomorrow and then if they beat NYI on Thursday, they get to play us.