GDT #44 Capitals vs Sabres at 7:00pm

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April 15 vs Sabers at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: NBCSW
Radio: Caps Radio 24/7, 99.1 fm

Washington Capitals 28-11-4
Buffalo Sabres 10-25-7

Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin 8 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Mantha 39 - Backstrom 19 - Oshie 77
Sheary 73 - Eller 20 - Sprong 10
Hagelin 82 - Dowd 26 - Hathaway 21

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

Vanecek 41

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

scratched:
Van Riemsdyk
Anderson
Raffl- IR
Samsonov - day to day

Sabres anticipated lines:
Skinner 53 - Reinhart 23 - Olofsson 68
Asplund 74 - Mittelstadt 37 - Thompson 72
Bjork 96 - Cozens 24 - Ruotsalainen 25
Rieder 13 - Eakin 20 - Okposo 21

Bryson 78 - Ristolainen 55
Dahlin 26 - Jokiharju 10
Irwin 44 - Miller 33

Tokarski 31

tonight's zebras
referees:
Trevor Hanson 14    Furman South 44
linesmen:
James Tobias 61    Brandon Gawryletz 64

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-finish-homestand-vs-sabres/c-323656758

https://novacapsfans.com/2021/04/15/vitek-vanecek-will-start-in-goal-tonight-ilya-samsonov-out-day-to-day-with-upper-body-injury-notes-from-morning-skate/

scoring summary
1st period:
Reinhart from Cozens and Jokiharju at 18:50
Orlov from Oshie at 19:37
2nd period:
Olofsson unassisted at 1:36
Mittelstadt SHG from Bjork at 5:42
Mantha from Carlson and Backstrom at 9:59
Bjork from Cozens at 13:23
3rd period:
Thompson ENG from Asplund at 19:17


Caps lose 5-2

Buck Fettman
and Manford

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this is Backys 1000th game, there will be a brief pregame ceremony and the team will all wear his sweater for warmups

[BarfingMonkey]

Let's GO CAPS!
Come on Mantha!


Going to try and watch some Red Wings too, Vrana and Panik both in the lines ups tonight.

[richkrt99]

Hope they show the Backy pre-game on the stream

[richkrt99]

NICKY!

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Only two guys have played 1000 games as a Cap.. OV and Backy

[BarfingMonkey]

Kinda crazy if you think about that stat.

Only two guys have played 1000 games as a Cap.. OV and Backy

[richkrt99]

WTF are they all wearing masks on the bench?

[Mickstix]

WTF are they all wearing masks on the bench?

Bad breath. 

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right, but high fives and hand shakes are fine

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Let's GO CAPS!
Come on Mantha!


Going to try and watch some Red Wings too, Vrana and Panik both in the lines ups tonight.

I think I'll miss Panik more than Vrana

[Surreylily]

Aaaawwww!  That was cute.      Morning all.

What was it the players gave him?   Was it something to do with golf?
(I have to have my sound down really low at this time of night)

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9 and 74 are paired up tonight, at least to start

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Aaaawwww!  That was cute.      Morning all.

What was it the players gave him?   Was it something to do with golf?
(I have to have my sound down really low at this time of night)

his teammates gave him an all expense paid trip to any golf course of his choice

[richkrt99]

I pass you puck.  You score.

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damn, he's leaking too

[Surreylily]

OUCH!!!!!!1   

[richkrt99]

damn, he's leaking too

I think it caught the shield so hopefully not too bad for him.

[Surreylily]

"Rocking the blue" doesn't quite have the right ring to it...

[richkrt99]

Should have got him for the dive