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October 16 vs Flames at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: MNMT
Radio: 106.7 FM
Washington Capitals 0-1-0
Calgary Flames 1-1-0
Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - Backstrom 19 - Oshie 77
McMichael 24 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Milano 15 - Strome 17 - Phillips 45
Malenstyn 47 - Dowd 26 - Protas 21
Sandin 38 - Carlson 74
Fehervary 42 - van Riemsdyk 57
Alexeyev 27 - Jensen 3
Kuemper 35
PP1:
PP2:
scratched:
Stevenson 33 - backup
Lindgren 79 - injured - day to day
Mantha 39
Johansen 46
LTIR:
Edmundson 6 - hand
Pacioretty 67 - achilles
Flames anticipated lines:
Huberdeau 10 - Lindholm 28 - Mangiapane 88
Ruzicka 63 - Kadri 91 - Dube 29
Coleman 20 - Backlund 11 - Coronato 27
Greer 18 - Sharongovich 17 - Duehr 71
Hanifin 55 - Andersson 4
Zadorov 16 - Weegar 52
Gilbert 48 - Tanev 8
Markstrom 25
Vladar 80
tonight’s zebras:
Brian Pochmara 16, Brandon Blandina 39
Brad Kovachik 71, Ryan Galloway 82
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-face-flames (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-face-flames)
scoring summary
1st period:
Ruzicka from Hanifin and Dube at 4:47
Dube PPG from Hanifin and Ruzicka at 17:12
2nd period:
Phillips(1) from Milano(1) at 6:50
McMichael(1) from Phillips(1) and Carlson(1) at 9:54
3rd period:
no goals
OT:
no goals
SO:
Kuznetsov ✅ Huberdeau ❎
Oshie ❎ Sharongovich ❎
Ovechkin ❎ Kadri ❎
Caps win 3-2
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Just a reminder, NBCSports Washington is now Monumental Sports. Same bat channel, same bat time.
There are teams that have already played three games and starting a fourth tonight, Caps are starting their 2nd. The schedule will make up for this discrepancy in march thanks to the nhl schedule makers.
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also.. Lindgren left the morning skate early with an apparent injury, no word yet on who the backup will be or what this will do to the lineup.
4pm update-
Lindgren now listed as day to day, Stephenson will be the backup. Edmundson was moved to LTIR to make cap space.
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I don't like 77 on the top line.............
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I don't like any of em' on the "top line", tbh... We'll see what happens but if they still can't create tonight, hopefully Carbery breaks up the "molasses" line.
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Hoping for someone to score a Caps goal tonight! :cross: :wackysmile: :raspberry:
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Pfft.. 12-0 shots, 1-0 Flames. 5 minutes in. :rofl: :clown: :poop:
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molasses on ice
:O=
:clown: :poop:
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Hot damn, 8 minutes in we get a SHOT ON GOAL!! :wackysmile:
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molasses on ice
Was it the molasses line? I wasn't even paying attention.
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Looks like we've been killing a 10 minute penalty. :rofl:
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Not very good hockey from the Caps so far.........
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Was it the molasses line? I wasn't even paying attention.
So far, it’s the whole team
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PK looks good
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Kuzy living in the box.............some things never change :(
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Morning chaps :wackysmile:
Time to start playing..........
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it should be 2-0
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Morning chaps :wackysmile:
Time to start playing..........
It doesn’t look like the onesie is going to do the trick tonight, probably should just go topless
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:clown: :clown:
:poop: :O=
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Im too old for this shit. :-\
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I liked that sequence
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Im too old for this shit. :-\
sounds like you’re out of that tobacco you like
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Negative Ghost Rider! :P :snicker:
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Got us 3 shots that period boi!! LET'S FUCKING GO!!!! :)
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2-0 after 20 minutes
:)
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:) :)
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Least Alexa's lookin fine again this year.
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swap 43 and 77 FFS you have no goals yet this season.............
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GOOOAAALLLL
PHILLIPS
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WOOOOOOOOOOT
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Good for Phills !
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GOOOAAALLL
MCMICHAEL
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:clap:
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The Youngsta's!
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5’7” Phillips just got his first ever NHL goal, and his first ever 2 point game
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that was a sweet toe drag............
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Good lort. Flames on pace to drop 60 shots on us. :rofl:
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Good lort. Flames on pace to drop 60 shots on us. :rofl:
if the Caps are netting 2 of every 9 it won’t matter
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2 to 2 after 2
they are starting to resemble an actual hockey team
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Solid 20 minutes!
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That's about our 4th dumb penalty. Can't really blame the refs. yet. :raspberry:
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WAKEY WAKEY Ovi............. :yawn:
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5th
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bad penalties...........
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with 1:30 to go I’m gonna go out on a limb and say next goal wins it
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Nice PK. See if we can't snag both points here!
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Sandin, Strome and McMike out in OT. Lavi would have rather been dead than do that.
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It’s a PP in OT!
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FUCKING SHOOT THE FUCKING PUCK
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PPPP never comes through when you need it.
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Kuzy and Kuemper win the SO
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Fucking leave Ovi on the bench for these please.. Thank you Kemps!!! Kuzy!!
2 points! Protect the house!! See ya Wednesday.
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Well done K
Sweet dreams all. :yawn:
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wow...im just in...out in South Dakota. Nice to see a win, but am I to believe Keumper stopped all the guys in the SO?
good for Phillips and McMike. We desperately need scoring from the youngins.
I agree ovie, backy, oshie is not a top line. Put Willy up there for sure or move both backy and Oshie to L3.
Hell move all 3 of them to L3. Yeah, WTF not...they all old and can use the rest then you can use them on the PPPP when you need them.
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Hopefully Ovi can shake off the rust or play into shape or whatever is going on with him. But 2 games in, he don't look right at all.
And I wonder when the last time a $5.75m player got "healthy scratched" in game 2 of the season? lol Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?? I honestly feel like he'd be perfect for the 4th line. Maybe he'd even get a point or two, but he's fine playing that 4th line role, imo. At least until you can move him or his contract expires. I don't feel like he's a "liability" on the ice or anything.
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I watched the game partly last night. Some of the guys look fine. Wilson continues to make an impression and did hit a post also. He is an impact player...when he's on the ice, everyone (opponent) has to adjust. Kuzy looks pretty good - if he could quit it with the dumb stick penalties. I think the refs are tired of his mouth and any chance he goes to the box. Some of those are just like WTF ref, but all of them are from the Russian flyby stick check instead of getting position and putting the body to someone.
Its flat out embarrassing to see Kuzy beat a guy in the shootout. I heard one of the announcers say teams really don't like the way he does it, but...WTF? Too fucking bad - he's supposed to beat the goalie...if you don't like the way he makes your GT look bad, then just stop the puck. We don't like it when your fast guys make our slow old fuckers look slow.
And FFS, give someone else a shot in the shootout. Ovi is NOT a shootout guy. That's not his skillset. Play the hot hand - Phillips scores his first NHL goal ever, and has an assist...has his dad and girl at the game, and is in the play ever single one of his 12 minutes on the ice. The guy is absolutely on cloud 9 - put his ass out there and give him a shot. Or Mcmike, or Strome, or Willy, or Milano, or SOMEONE that has some stick skills and hands.
I really don't mind when they put Oshie out or even Backy, both those guys are pretty good, but I'd like to see giving the young guns some shots at it.
Kuemper actually looked good all night and did exactly what we needed; gave his team a shot to win the game. I don't see him as a spectacular highlights kind of goalie, but a stable guy with a reasonable chance to help you win some games. I'm hoping he does more of that this year than last, cause we gonna need it.