Washington Capitals Fan Forum
Talk about Capitals hockey & more! => Washington Capitals & Other Hockey Discussion => Topic started by: alta on Thursday April 14, 2022, 01:45:50 PM Eastern
-
April 14 vs Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: NBCSW
Radio: Caps Radio 24/7, whofuckingknows FM
Toronto Maple Leafs 47-20-6
Washington Capitals 41-22-10
Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin 8 - Kuznetsov 92 - Sheary 73
Johansson 90 - Backstrom 19 - Oshie 77
Mantha 39 - Eller 20 - Wilson 43
Larsson 22 - Dowd 26 - Hathaway 21
Fehervary 42 - Carlson 74
van Riemsdyk 57 - Jensen 3
Irwin 52 - Schultz 2
Samsonov 30
PP1:
PP2:
scratched:
Vanecek 41 - backup
McMichael 24
Johnsson-Fjallby 45
Kempny 6
Orlov 9 - lower body
LTIR:
Hagelin 62 - eye
Snively 91 - wrist
Leafs anticipated lines:
Bunting 58 - Matthews 34 - Marner 16
Mikheyev 65 - Tavares 91 - Kerfoot 15
Nylander 88 - Kampf 64 - Engvall 47
Clifford 43 - Blackwell 11 - Simmonds 24
Rielly 44 - Lyubushkin 46
Muzzin 8 - Brodie 78
Giordano 55 - Liljegren 37
Campbell 36
tonight’s zebras:
Justin St. Pierre 12, Michael Markovic 31
Tyson Baker 88, Bryan Pancich 94
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-start-long-trip-in-toronto/c-332969608 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-start-long-trip-in-toronto/c-332969608)
scoring summary
1st period:
Bunting from Marner and Matthews at 4:37
Nylander from Engvall and Muzzin at 13:45
2nd period:
Carlson(15) unassisted at 10:08
Lyubushkin from Rielly and Tavares at 10:19
Nylander from Rielly and Tavares at 10:37
Mikheyev from Tavares and Matthews at 14:44
Bunting from Engvall at 16:25
Wilson(24) from Eller(16) and Carlson(51) at 19:07
3rd period:
Mikheyev from Lyubushkin and Tavares at 1:27
Dowd(9) from van Riemsdyk(15) and Larsson(12) at 11:58
Caps lose 7-3
-
so, with Kuzy out I’m guessing McMichael is going to play center tonight. If I had to guess, Backy to line 1, McM on 2.
-
L1 is gonna suffer without Kuzy. Backy is a playmaker, but Kuzy got wheels Backy don't
I think the win streak might be over tonight.
I also think I get to watch on live TV :uh-huh:
-
looks like we gotta wait until game time to get confirmation on tonight’s lines, the normal people that travel with the team did not go to Canada
-
Looks like the boys have put a little stiffness in their spines of late. Tonight will be a good test to see whether this is real or smoke and mirrors.
-
What happened to Kuzy? Man, he was smooth last game.
-
What happened to Kuzy? Man, he was smooth last game.
"Illness" :-\
But then there's this.. So I guess there's some hope he'll play. I still doubt it though.
https://twitter.com/VogsCaps/status/1514733014269505544
-
"Illness" :-\
Had to "powder his nose"....again. :-\
-
One of them "responsible" defensive forwards we picked up with the :clown: :poop: clearing of the zone..
-
maybe this pp can get the boys going
-
are we sure Kuzy started? I haven’t heard his name yet
-
:O= :O=
:clown: :poop:
-
Key save there Sammy.. :clown: :poop:
Yea, Kuzy is playing.
-
whatafukinjoke, Willy got pushed into the goalie
-
Welp.. Killed one penalty and took another. :)
This ones teetering on being over in the 1st period..
-
Time to regroup, see if they can make a game of it..
-
WTF was that bullshit penalty call?
-
WTF was that bullshit penalty call?
which one
-
GOOOAAALLL
CARLSON
-
dafuk
:poop: :poop: :poop:
:O= :clown:
-
:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
:O= :O= :O= :O=
:clown: :clown: :clown: :clown:
-
Vtec is in..
-
lol.. Fucking Samsoftnov strikes again. Then they gave up I guess...
:clown: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :clown: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
-
Dude.. Backstrom is slow as shit. Like, not right at all, slow as shit..
-
Id say Willy won that :uh-huh:
-
Yikees.. Willy busted his knuckles on Cliffords face. :clap:
-
:O= :poop: :clown:
:O= :poop: :clown:
:O= :poop: :clown:
:O= :poop: :clown:
:O= :poop: :clown:
-
:sick:
-
…….
-
Oh well, Saturday night then..
-
GOOOAAAALLLL
WILSON
-
The Not Ready For Primetime Players. As I suspected.
-
:O= :clown: :poop: x 7
-
goooaaalll
Dowd
-
welp, that sucked balls
-
Had to work and watch the tape of this - thank God I didn't have to see this live.
We've all been Caps fans long enough to know we were due for a clunker. Hopefully this is a one off. Hard to know if Toronto was just younger and quicker or we were just f'n old and slow .... or both.
-
The Not Ready For Primetime Players. As I suspected.
True, but to be fair...they won the previous 3 vs at least semi prime time, then stomped Philthy....you can't really expect them to keep that going forever.
Toronto did made us look like we made Philthy look. I don't have high hopes for the playoffs. Our goaltending is just too suspect. I'm not hanging this one on Sammy cause Toronto dominated in every aspect, but sometimes you have to make a key stop and apparently last night wasn't a night where Sammy could do that. He did make some great saves at times, but you can't just let a guy blow it past you coming wide down the wing, and you can't be off your position as much as he is...plus rebounds....on an on.
But really....we just didn't play well....and you tack on the BS penalties...Wilson.....Oshie....Hathy (TOTAL fantasy), plus they missed 4 minutes high stick on Hathy's nose.
Not that our PP would have helped....pretty sure Toronto had more scoring chances on our PP's than we did.
Guys looked tired and after it was 4-1 it was over.
Wilson looked like the only guy out there that came to play...well Carlson was pretty good. Willy is making Eller look like an NHL center as of late :snicker:
And I don't really recall an Ovi sighting...and Backy...Oooh-fah....Micks right (for a change) - Backy is slow. I hope that is just not quite back 100% and will get better and not....Brooks Laich/Carl Alzner disease
-
I don’t think this team is normally as slow as the Leafs made them look last night. The non wuhan flu is going through the locker room right now and slows down the best athletes. I think I heard Kuzys name called once last night and he looked like warm dog poop out there. Hopefully that explains Backy, and it’s not his hip again.