Hoping that Alexeyev stays as our 6th defenseman, both for his experience and because I think he SHOULD now be in the top 6.


He and TVR should probably be the 3rd pair.

yeah 27 played himself into that spot  Dylan and Lucas should be gone.  Although I would have liked to see Dylan v. Rempe

looks like we will have our D back!!

looks like Miro is in tonight as well

R1G3   Rangers lead 2-0
April 26 vs Rangers at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports, TNT
Radio: 106.7 FM, Capitals Radio 24/7

Washington Capitals(WC2) 40-31-11
New York Rangers(M1) 55-23-4

Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - McMichael 24 - Oshie(A) 77
Protas 21 - Strome 17 - Wilson 43
Pacioretty 67 - Lapierre 29 - Milano 15
Malenstyn 47 - Dowd 26 - Miroshnichenko 63

Fehervary 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Alexeyev 27 - McIlrath 52
Johansen 46 - van Riemsdyk 57

Lindgren 79

PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Wilson, Lapierre, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, Pacioretty, McMichael, Strome, van Riemsdyk

scratched:
Kuemper 35 - backup
Sgarbossa 23
Aubé-Kubel 96
Häman Aktell 4
Sandin 38 - upper body - day to day
Jensen 3 - upper body - day to day
Iorio 2 - upper body - weekly

LTIR:
Backstrom 19 - hip - season
Bear 25 - player assistance - indefinite

Rangers anticipated lines:
Kreider 20 - Zibanejad 93 - Roslovic 96
Panarin 10 - Trochek 16 - Lafrenière 13
Cuylle 50 - Wennberg 91 - Kakko 24
Vesey 26 - Goodrow 21 - Rempe 73

Lindgren 55 - Fox 23
Miller 79 - Schneider 4
Gustafsson 56 - Trouba 8

Shesterkin 31
Quick 32 - backup

tonight’s zebras:
Frederick L’Ecuyer 17, Chris Lee 28
Travis Gawryletz 67, David Brisebois 96

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-come-home-for-game-3

scoring summary
1st period:
Carlson from Oshie and Fehervary at 5:34
Kreider Zibanejad and Roslovic at 6:08
Goodrow SHG from Trochek and Trouba at 8:08
2nd period:
Trochek PPG from Zibanejad and Fox at 15:22
3rd period:
no goals

Caps lose 3-1

from one extreme to the other.. Sunday at 3pm then Sunday at 8pm. I swear, the nhl scheduling team is just a bunch of monkeys throwing darts at a calendar.

Not that it will matter, but ....then there is a 5 day break from game 4 to game 5

Huh.   I'm trying to figure out how to do a poll thingamy...........

For who anybody thinks might be our next leader.

Willy pretty much fucked himself.

The only other candidate, in my eyes, is Chucky.

I'm starting to have serious questions about Carbs........

Well when you say leader...do you mean Captain?  Tom Wilson is a leader on this team, as is JC.  I expect he or John Carlson will next wear the C, but Johnny might be done the same time as Ovi.
Lindy..no...he might not even be here after next year.. He is a UFA after next season.  And you can't have a goalie as team captain even if you wanted to (which you wouldn't)
If you just mean leader and not Captain, then again...Wilson and Carlson are both leaders on and off the ice.  Wilson is pretty active in the community and with multiple charities as well.. Sure some of that is image building and marketing, but he does seem a genuinely decent fellow.
I don't understand what you mean when you say Wilson F'd himself?
Wilson and Strome are committed long term to this team.  I expect Wilson will be the next team Captain, but Ovie has two more years (at least) so who knows what other veterans this team will acquire in the next two full seasons.

As far as Carbs..I think he has done an excellent job with the assets at his disposal.  Most of the young guys have taken a step forward this year and that's what this team needed.  You can't blame the coach when your old guys just get older....and older...and slower.