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GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 02:45:45 PM Eastern »
                       



  Round 4: Stanley Cup finals: Game 2
  Series: Golden Knights lead series 1-0
  Wednesday May 30  Washington Capitals vs. Las Vegas Golden Knights
  Place:  T-Mobile Arena
  Time: 8:00 p.m.
  TV: NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS
  Radio: 106.7 The Fan, Capitals Radio 24/7
  NHL.COM for Live Box Score
  Last Game: May 28 Golden Knights won Game 1 6-4 in regulation.


        8-Ovechkin           92-Kuznetsov          43-Wilson
      13-Vrana                19-Bäckström          77-Oshie
      65-Burakovsky       20-Eller                    10-Connolly
      18-Stephenson       83-Beagle                  25-Smith-Pelly

                   9-Orlov                         2-Niskanen
                   6-Kempny                   74-Carlson
                  44-Orpik                       29-Djoos

                                70-Holtby  (starter)
                                31-Grubauer

                            -- SCRATCH --
                                39-Chiasson
                                79-Walker
                                72-Boyd
                                63-Gersich
                                64-Pinho
                                28-Jerabek
                                22-Bowey
                                  1-Copley
                             

                     -- 1st Powerplay Unit --
    77-Oshie            19-Bäckström           92-Kuznetsov
                  8-Ovechkin            74-Carlson
               
                     -- 2nd Powerplay Unit --
   13-Vrana          10-Connolly               20-Eller
                  2-Niskanen              9-Orlov


  Referees:   Kelly Sutherland (#11),    Chris Rooney  (#5)
Linesmen:   Derek Amell  (#75),    Greg Devorski (#54)
    Standby Referee:   Marc Joannette  (#25)
Standby Linesman:   Matt MacPherson  (#83)
  Series Supervisor:  Don Van Massenhoven 



       Las Vegas' Expected Lineup

                      Forwards
   Jonathan Marchessault - William Karlsson - Reilly Smith
           Alex Tuch - Erik Haula - James Neal                   
        David Perron - Cody Eakin - Ryan Carpenter             
   Ryan Reaves - Pierre - Edouard Bellemare - Tomas Nosek   

                    Defensemen
          Brayden McNabb - Nate Schmidt 
         Deryk Engelland - Shea Theodore
            Luca Sbisa - Colin Miller     

                    Goaltenders
          Marc - Andre Fleury (starter)
                Maxime Lagace
             
Malcolm Subban, the Golden Knights’ usual backup goaltender, remains day-to-day with an undisclosed injury. Golden Knights Coach Gerard Gallant said he expects Subban to return at some point during the Stanley Cup series, but he did not specify when that may be.
             






1st Period
07:58  VGK GOAL Neal, assists Sbisa & Miller   1-0 VGK
17:27  GOAL 20-Eller, assists 6-Kempny & 65-Burakovsky   1-1 TIE

2nd Period
05:38  GOAL 8-Ovechkin, assists 20-Eller & 19-Bäckström   2-1 WSH
09:41  GOAL 44-Orpik, assists 20-Eller & 65-Burakovsky   3-1 WSH
17:47  VGK PP GOAL Theodore, assists Smith & Karlsson   3-2 WSH

3rd Period
None

FINAL:   3-2 WSH








by Scott Allen, Jesse Dougherty, Neil Greenberg, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Dan Steinberg and Roman Stubbs May 30 at 2:09 PM

2018 NHL Stanley Cup finals: Capitals-Golden Knights Game 2


Nicklas Backstrom and the Capitals look to even the series Wednesday night. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)



Stanley Cup finals: Game 2

Washington Capitals vs. Las Vegas Golden Knights
Series: Golden Knights lead 1-0
Wednesday May 30, 8:00 p.m. ET, T-Mobile Arena
TV: NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS

Remaining schedule
Game 3: at Washington, 8 p.m. Saturday June 2
Game 4: at Washington, 8 p.m. Monday June 4
Game 5 (if necessary): at Las Vegas, 8 p.m. Thursday June 7
Game 6 (if necessary): at Washington, 8 p.m. Sunday June 10
Game 7 (if necessary): at Las Vegas, 8 p.m. Wednesday June 13


  • The Capitals allowed the Golden Knights to dictate the style of play last game, can Washington slow speedy Vegas in Game 2? (Read more)
  • Neither team will change its lineup. (Read more)
  • Just one game into the Stanley Cup finals and hard-hitting Washington forward Tom Wilson is again in the spotlight. (Read more)
  • The Capitals are hoping for a better playing surface in Game 2 after “pretty bad” ice conditions at T-Mobile Arena. (Read more)

Top story lines

Pace of play: These Capitals play faster than past Washington teams, but they also don’t want to get into a track meet with the speedy Golden Knights, which is what happened in Game 1. The 6-4 Vegas win was thrilling with multiple lead changes and frenetic action on both sides, but it didn’t match Washington’s tight-checking, defensive style of play. Forward Brett Connolly said the Capitals “didn’t find our game,” as the Golden Knights were able to dictate the pace.

“No team wants to be trading chances back and forth because then it’s up in the air as to who is going to core those goals,” Connolly said.

Though the team that wins Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals is then crowned champion roughly 78 percent of the time, the Capitals were confident despite the first loss. They lost their first game in the first- and second-round series, too, going on to then win both of those matchups. Players figured that if Game 1 was so close and they didn’t play to their preferred style, then that bodes well for when Washington does play well.

“If we bring our game to a level I know we can, as a coach I’m excited about that because I thought we left a lot our elements out there that we haven’t had in our previous series where I thought we had a pretty complete game,” Barry Trotz said. “So if we make the adjustments that we need and everybody gets back to a little more of our foundation, then I think we’ll be back in the series real quickly.”

• Goaltending: It feels like a missed opportunity that the Capitals were able to score four goals on Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury and then not win the game. Fleury entered this final series with a .947 save percentage, and he hadn’t allowed four goals since his Game 1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets in the Western Conference finals. He then won the next four games to lift Vegas to a series win, not allowing more than two goals in a game.

“We know how he play,” Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin said. “We’ve played against him lots of times. We just have to do the same thing.”

Meanwhile, Washington goaltender Braden Holtby left Monday’s Game 1 with some things he wanted to clean up after allowing five goals, the most he’s been scored on in a game all postseason.

“I thought my puck-handling was not great,” he said. “I was recognizing the type of forecheck they were having, and I made the wrong decision on a few occasions. That’s just something you go back, watch the video and see where there’s defaults at times to get the puck back in our teams’ hands. Just little things like that, where every team plays a little different. You can watch all the video of how they play other teams, but you don’t know how they’re going to play you until you actually do it.”


Players to watch

Tom Wilson: Washington’s 24-year-old power forward again made headlines with his late, hard hit on Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault. While the NHL’s Department of Player Safety didn’t consider that a legal check, it also wasn’t a suspension-worthy one largely because there wasn’t head contact. Golden Knights Coach Gerard Gallant wished Wilson would’ve been called for a major penalty rather than a minor one, but he also felt the hit “woke up” his team. The Capitals typically expect Wilson to provide that kind of energy to their own bench. He’s a versatile top-line forward with four goals this postseason, including one in Monday night’s game. He could have an even bigger target on his back in Game 2 after the hard-hitting impression he made in the first contest.

“He’s one of the most physical guys in the National Hockey League and he’s playing with a couple of star players, and he hits like a truck” Trotz said. “But Tom has an effect, and positive and negative, he draws a lot of attention because of the way he plays.”

Ryan Reaves: The Golden Knights fourth-line forward, acquired in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins this past February, was a huge (and unlikely) part of his team’s offensive success in Game 1. The fourth line scored three goals in Game 1 — two by Tomas Nosek (one an empty-netter) and another by Reaves — and that provided an offensive balance the Capitals could not match in a 6-4 win for the Golden Knights. Reaves has spent most of his career as an enforcer and did not score a goal in 21 regular-season games with the Golden Knights. He also has never scored more than seven goals in a season. It is more likely that Reaves’ next contributions to his team’s effort will be clearing space for teammates or, possibly, confronting Wilson after the hit on Marchessault. But every bit of offense is a boost when it is coming from Reaves and the fourth line, and they provided a big lift in the first game of this series.

“I think any goal that I score for the rest of the year is going to be the biggest in my career for sure,” Reaves said after the Golden Knights practiced on Tuesday. “Winnipeg was obviously real fun because it was in front of the hometown and I caught a couple of boos. It was good to finally get one in front of Vegas. It’s been three and a half months, so it was good to get one in front of them.”


Pregame reading

Immerse yourself in the Capitals’ postseason with The Post’s coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs:

Capitals still adjusting to ‘pretty bad’ ice conditions in the desert
‘A little bit bittersweet’: Former Capital Nate Schmidt thriving in Vegas
The house doesn’t always win: Las Vegas may lose millions on the Golden Knights
The Capitals and Golden Knights share a road-trip tradition: Mario Kart
What was that? Braden Holtby and the Capitals look unsteady in high-scoring Game 1.
Game 1 of Stanley Cup finals draws record TV ratings in D.C. and Las Vegas
The Capitals can’t afford to play wide-open games against Vegas
After a Las Vegas show, a hockey game broke out at the Stanley Cup finals
Tom Wilson trucks Jonathan Marchessault, draws scrutiny in Stanley Cup finals
A casual fan’s bandwagon guide to the Stanley Cup finals
The best photos from the Capitals’ run to their first Stanley Cup finals in 20 years
The Washington Capitals’ path to the 2018 Stanley Cup finals
The Stanley Cup in sight, Alex Ovechkin is all in as Capitals head to Vegas
George McPhee and Brian MacLellan go back decades. Now their teams are playing for the Stanley Cup.
In Stanley Cup finals, Capitals face down yet another familiar foe: Marc-Andre Fleury
Las Vegas, shaken by tragedy, finds an unlikely rallying point: Its first-year NHL team
Remembering the Caps’ run to the 1998 Stanley Cup finals: ‘Nobody wanted to play against us’
Evgeny Kuznetsov’s transition to borderline NHL superstar
Capitals Coach Barry Trotz is a pending unrestricted free agent. His value is soaring.
Look at Nicklas Backstrom’s gross, giant finger. It might be injured.
Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom’s long journey together reaches Stanley Cup finals at last
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 05:07:40 PM Eastern »
just caught the top of the hour local news brief on the radio, they said Nats at 7:05 and Caps around 8:00. When the MLB says 7:05 they mean it, I've been at a few games where all the players were on the field ready to go at 7:04 and the ump was standing over the plate staring at his watch. Buttman should take notice, should but won't
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 05:18:12 PM Eastern »
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 06:13:03 PM Eastern »
Saw on facebook.. 8pm is when the new Game of Thrones episode starts.. Puck drop sometime after that.  :rofl: :rofl:

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 06:32:34 PM Eastern »
The NBC Sports Washington crew is almost completely useless for pregame shows for these Stanley Cup Finals. As I did prior to Game 1, I am going to switch to the NBC "NHL Live" pre-game, which was a lot better than our usual pre-game crews. Even Joe B. seems like Vegas has made him giddy and useless. I guess they've never been to Vegas before.  Las Vegas can be a bit overwhelming the first time you experience it.  I can only hope the team is taking this a lot more seriously than the Comcast crew.
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:02:13 PM Eastern »
Let’s go Caps!!Hope to see better hockey in defense from our team!

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:09:40 PM Eastern »
I can't believe we have to s it through this pregame shite again.
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:11:53 PM Eastern »
This is ridicules,same crap once again 

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:13:22 PM Eastern »
alright, now I'm annoyed, if Vegas is gonna do this crap they need to start it at 7:30.


If Caps management had any balls they would get Brian boitano on the ice to do a 30 minute routine and have him start it at 10 after the hour
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:13:35 PM Eastern »
This is ridicules,same crap once again
I went to some dinner theatre and a hockey game broke out.  After 20 minutes...

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:14:33 PM Eastern »
So does anyone know who this shitty band is?

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:14:49 PM Eastern »
and I think this is making me not be a fan of imagine dragons anymore either
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:16:32 PM Eastern »
I went to some dinner theatre and a hockey game broke out.  After 20 minutes...


to be fair, the last time I went to a dinner theater I got a couple of cheap glasses to take home
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:16:34 PM Eastern »
I am sure the ice is getting better by the minute!

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:16:37 PM Eastern »
So does anyone know who this shitty band is?




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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:16:44 PM Eastern »
THey could at least have some act with talent to waste our time and force the Caps players to cool down after warmups. I am truly surprised the Caps did not have this crap shutdown after game 1.

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:17:43 PM Eastern »
So does anyone know who this shitty band is?


Imagine Dragons, and they are from Vegas
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:21:02 PM Eastern »
I got a better idea, they should put Slapshot and some tool in a Vegas uni on four wheelers at center ice and let Slapshot run the tool into the boards, hard
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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:24:25 PM Eastern »
It’s Vegas, so .... whatever.    Gotta beat ‘em on the ice.  Finally, maybe we’ll get some hockey. 

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Re: GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday May 30, 2018, 08:25:06 PM Eastern »
:boom:
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