GDT #31 Capitals vs Rangers @ 7:00pm

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March 20 vs Rangers at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: NBCSW
Radio: Caps Radio 24/7, 106.7

Washington Capitals 20-6-4
New York Rangers 12-13-4

Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin 8 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Vrana 13 - Backstrom 19 - Sheary 73
Panik 14 - Oshie 77 - Sprong 10
Hagelin 62 - Dowd 26 - Hathaway 21

Dillon 4 - Carlson 74
Orlov 9 - Schultz 2
Chara 33 - Jensen 3

Samsonov 30

PP1: Ovechkin, Carlson, Backstrom, Oshie, Vrana
PP2: Kuznetsov, Schultz, Orlov, Sheary,

scratched:
Eller- lower body
Siegenthaler
Van Riemsdyk
Vanecek

Rangers anticipated lines:
Kreider 20 - Zibanejad 93 - Buchnevich 89
Panarin 10 - Strome 16 - Blackwell 43
Lafrenière 13 - Chytil 72 - Kakko 24
Lemieux 48 - Rooney 17 - Howden 21

Miller 79 - Trouba 8
Lindgren 55 - Fox 23
Hajek 25 - Smith 42

Kinkaid 71

tonight's zebras
referees:
Dan O'Rourke 9    Peter MacDougall 38
linesmen:
Tony Sericolo 84    Matt MacPherson 83

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-aim-for-eighth-straight-win-in-rematch-vs-rangers/c-322716620


scoring summary
1st period:
Buchnevich from Fox and Zibanejad at 17:49
2nd period:
no goals
3rd period:
Carlson from Wilson and Backstrom at 5:55
Zibanejad unassisted at 17:28
Howden ENG from Strome and Buchnevich at 19:32

Caps lose 3-1



Buck Fettman

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Willy will be back, and Eller is still a question mark.. still waiting for possible line combos to be posted somewhere. It's a guess at this point.

[Mickstix]

No Eller tonight.


But, 

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[justwincaps]

https://t.co/UYPS0l20sS

Courtesy of Washington capitals social media

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Eller is out again, but at least the Caps have 12 forewords with Willy back

[Surreylily]

Evening all.     

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Evening all.     

are ya neked   

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must not be neked, the Caps pp is now 0-10 against the Rags this season

[Mickstix]

Definitely not neked.. 

[Surreylily]

Maybe I should on the PP's.     

[Mickstix]

Maybe I should on the PP's.     

I think you're gonna have to. Boys look flat again tonight.

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yea, 0-11

[Mickstix]

Seen that coming. Wilson looks rusty. Been behind the play a few times already.

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[Surreylily]

I expected the Rags to come out fighting this game, but I wasn't execting them to have quite such a hard on for Willy.......

[Chaos43]

Seen that coming. Wilson looks rusty. Been behind the play a few times already.

    I wouldn't put all of that on Wilson. The Rangers won the faceoff cleanly and none of the Caps picked up a man.
    Jensen lined up on the left boards and then chased Buchnevich to the middle of the ice. The defenceman that got the puck off the draw went right to the spot that Jensen had just left. That was where the problem was. No one picked him up.
     Another issue is that Kuzy lost that faceoff so cleanly. Gotta do better on faceoffs than that. Atleast make the other team earn possession.
   

[Chaos43]

Seen that coming. Wilson looks rusty. Been behind the play a few times already.

     I'll take another look at that goal later. Maybe we can get a better look at it. But I think what happened is that the Rangers won the faceoff cleanly to the right defenceman and Tom Wilson went out to cover the pass across to the other defenceman.  I think Wilson took the right guy and it looked like it was his fault because he was late getting back. I think it should have been someone else's man.

[BarfingMonkey]

Crowd noise is a bit loud tonight, no?

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Crowd noise is a bit loud tonight, no?

what