GDT#11 Capitals @ Canadiens 7:30 p.m. ET Thu Nov 1, 2018 NBCSWA, TSN2, RDS

[ArJunaZ]

           

             

  Game 11:  12-5-3-2 (PTS-W-L-OT)
  Thursday November 1, 2018   Washington Capitals @ Montreal Canadiens
  Place:  Bell Centre
  Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
  TV: NBCSWA, TSN2, RDS
  Radio: 106.7 The Fan, Capitals Radio 24/7
  NHL.COM for Live Box Score
  Last Game: Sat October 27, Capitals Won 4-3 against Flames
  Next Game: Sat November 3, 7:00pm ET Stars @ Capitals


        8-Ovechkin           92-Kuznetsov          13-Vrana
      65-Burakovsky      19-Bäckström          77-Oshie
      18-Stephenson       20-Eller                    10-Connolly
      23-Jaskin                26-Dowd                  25-Smith-Pelly

                  6-Kempny                      74-Carlson
                   9-Orlov                           2-Niskanen
                  29-Djoos                        22-Bowey

                                70-Holtby  (starter)
                                  1-Copley

                            -- SCRATCH --
                                79-Walker
                                44-Orpik [lower-body injury]
                                72-Boyd (inactive)
                                63-Gersich (inactive)
                             
                            -- INJURED RESERVE --
                                 

                            -- SUSPENDED --
                               43-Wilson (9 games left??)

                     -- 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:   Pierre Lambert (#37),    Brad Watson (#23)
  Linesmen:   Brian Murphy (#93),    Mark Shewchyk (#92)







1st Period
02:28  Habs GOAL Kotkaniemi, assist Armia   1-0 MTL
06:16  GOAL 20-Eller, assists 2-Niskanen & 18-Stephenson   1-1 TIE

2nd Period
00:32  Habs GOAL Gallagher, assist Tatar   2-1 MTL
03:06  Habs GOAL Gallagher, assists Tatar & Danault   3-1 MTL
06:49  GOAL 8-Ovechkin, assists 92-Kuznetsov & 13-Vrana   3-2 MTL
07:59  GOAL 20-Eller, assists 9-Orlov & 2-Niskanen   3-3 TIE
12:53  GOAL 8-Ovechkin, assists 9-Orlov & 2-niskanen   4-3 WSH

3rd Period
16:56  Habs GOAL Kotkaniemi, assists Lehkonen & mete   4-4 TIE
19:38  Habs GOAL Domi, assist Reilly   5-4 MTL
19:40  Habs GOAL Armia, assist Danault   6-4 MTL

FINAL:    6-4 MTL






By Isabelle Khurshudyan November 1 at 1:15 PM

Braden Holtby is always calm, cool and collected ... unless you swipe a puck from a kid


Puck-snatching adults are about the only thing that gets Braden Holtby fired up. (Nick Wass/Associated Press)


MONTREAL — Not much rattles zen Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby, but watching a puck he tossed over the glass and intended for a kid swiped by an adult has infuriated him in recent pregame warmups. Twice in the past three weeks, Holtby has pointed to a young fan standing at the glass and then lofted a puck over only to have a taller adult nearby catch the disc and keep it for himself. The clips of Holtby’s exasperated body language after have gone viral.

“I guess everything is caught on film now,” he said. “It frustrates me. I might have been raised a different way, I guess. You just don’t do that.”

    You sir, @Holts170, are a gem. pic.twitter.com/poNrn0O6ao
    — NHL (@NHL) October 11, 2018

Holtby isn’t the only Capitals player who has had to deal with a puck-snatching adult. Last season, forward Brett Connolly meant for a puck to land in the hands of a young girl, but a man standing behind her thwarted two of Connolly’s tries and gave it to boys beside her. Connolly’s third attempt was finally successful.

When Holtby watched another puck get stolen away from his intended target before Washington’s game in Vancouver last week, he glared at the thief.

    why? pic.twitter.com/6F8nhTTOXx
    — Washington Capitals (@Capitals) October 23, 2018

“I thought he was kind of kidding around, but I think the guy behind him was even more mad than I was,” Holtby said.

Outside of his adventures in warmups, Holtby’s had a rough statistical start to the season. He’s 4-2-1, but he has an .888 save percentage with a 3.41 goals-against average. As a goaltender who enjoys rhythm and playing as often as possible, he said the spread-out schedule in October was “strange," and it might have hurt him. The Capitals played 10 games in October, and they’ll have 15 games in November.

“We’ve given up some quality chances against and we just have to, within our system, get a little bit more detailed, a little bit more structured, a little harder in some tough areas,” Coach Todd Reirden said. “Braden’s been outstanding for us for years, and for him, we have to do a better job in front of him. I look forward to seeing him continue to progress here, especially with playing games every other night that he can get into a bit of a routine here.”

Orpik could practice Friday

Defenseman Brooks Orpik will miss Thursday night’s game in Montreal because of an undisclosed “lower-body” injury, but Reirden said it’s possible Orpik will be back on the ice Friday. The 38-year-old hasn’t practiced with his teammates since Washington returned from its Western Canada road trip on Sunday.

“He may practice tomorrow,” Reirden said. “He’s not skating today, but we’ll see how he does with treatment and stuff the rest of today and whether he’s able to join us for practice or not tomorrow.”



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[alta]

Just in case someone really wanted to listen to Walton on the radio tonight, they can’t. Walton called a different game this afternoon and apparently couldn’t make it to Montreal in time. Which means we get more of that asshat that can’t pronounce a players name after 5 years

[ArJunaZ]

You talking about Locker?

[ArJunaZ]

[ArJunaZ]

Nice save by Nisky!

[ArJunaZ]

WTH! Did everyone move to another board or something?  It hasn't been real busy in here since we won the Cup.  I guess everyone had their fill with one Cup.
 

[Maacoshark]

WTH! Did everyone move to another board or something?  It hasn't been real busy in here since we won the Cup.  I guess everyone had their fill with one Cup.
 

   You can start talking to yourself. Like Oldhat does.

[ArJunaZ]

   You can start talking to yourself. Like Oldhat does.

It seems so.  I may need my own lounge. 

[ArJunaZ]

I can't remember our defense ever playing as poorly as that last shift.

[Maacoshark]

I can't remember our defense ever playing as poorly as that last shift.

   Our defense has been bad all season other than the game against the bruins

[alta]

Walton did the radio for the Winipeg Florida game this morning

[alta]

Nice to see the Caps tie it but they've been on their heals a bit so far

[4 Caps]

It took the Caps awhile to get into the game, we were badly outplayed in the beginning but picked it up at the end.  Montreal is much better than people expected going into the season.  They are aggressive and play a fast game.  I don’t think the Caps were ready for that in the beginning. 

[4 Caps]

Walton did the radio for the Winipeg Florida game this morning

He did the TV  play by play for NBCSN which carried the game.  He and our favorite Pierre McGuire did the game.  He did a good job I thought. 

[Surreylily]

DAGNAMMOTTTTT!
Your clocks haven't gone back yet, have they.   

[alta]

You talking about Locker?

LoL, no. Waltons side kick, Ken Sabourin. He's the one that says "Bearakowski"

[alta]

He did the TV  play by play for NBCSN which carried the game.  He and our favorite Pierre McGuire did the game.  He did a good job I thought.

I didn't even know there was game over there today, I just assumed Walton did the radio for it since that's his thing

[4 Caps]

Forgot to note that Montreal goal was scored by a player who scored his first NHL goal.  That seems to happen so often with the Caps.  I know that this is at least the second game that this has happened this year.

[alta]

Great start to the period

[Surreylily]

Our guys look like they've never played together before.