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Talk about Capitals hockey & more! => Washington Capitals & Other Hockey Discussion => Topic started by: alta on Monday December 23, 2024, 02:57:39 PM Eastern
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December 23 vs Bruins at TD Garden
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports
Radio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7
Washington Capitals 23-8-2
PP% 21.2(17th) PK% 83.3(6th) Faceoff% 50.7(17th)
Boston Bruins 18-13-4
PP% 13.2(31st) PK% 77.6(22nd) Faceoff% 52.5(6th)
Caps anticipated lines:
Mangiapane 88 - Strome 17 - Wilson(A) 43
McMichael 24 - Dubois 80 - Protas 21
Duhaime 22 - Dowd(A) 26 - Miroshnichenko 63
Vrana 13 - - Raddysh 16
Sandin 38 - Carlson(A) 74
Fehervary 42 - Roy 3
Chychrun 6 - van Riemsdyk 57
McIlrath 52
Lindgren 79
Thompson 48 - backup
PP1: Strome, Wilson, McMichael, Chychrun, Carlson
PP2: Dubois, Raddysh, Mangiapane, Vrana, Sandin
scratched:
Rybinski 58
Alexeyev 27
McIlrath 52
IR:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - lower body
Eller 20 - illness
LTIR:
Milano 15 - upper body
Backstrom 19 - hip - season
Oshie 77 - lower back - season
Bruins anticipated lines:
Marchand(C) 63 - Lindholm 28 - Coyle 13
Geekie 39 - Zacha 18 - Pastrnak(A) 88
Brazeau 55 - Frederic 11 - Wahlstrom 71
Beecher 19 - Kastelic 45 - Koepke 47
Zadorov 91 - McAvoy(A) 73
Oesterle 82 - Carlo 25
Lohrei 6 - Peeke 52
Swayman 1
Korpisalo 70 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Francois St. Laurent 8, Riley Brace 49
Jonathan Deschamps 80, Ryan Daisy 81
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2024/12/46709/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-23-24/ (https://scoutingtherefs.com/2024/12/46709/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-23-24/)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x9424 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x9424)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-tangle-with-bruins-in-boston (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-tangle-with-bruins-in-boston)
scoring summary
1st period:
Brazeau PPG from Geekie and Lohrei at 19:12
2nd period:
Vrana(7) PPG from Sandin and Dubois 4:50
3rd period:
Lindholm from Marchand and Coyle at 13:40
Coyle from Marchand and McAvoy at 15:59
Marchand ENG unassisted at 18:38
Caps lose 4-1
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Per Monumental Sports.. Craig Laughin will miss the next three games for a personal matter. Alan May will be the tv color commentator next to Joe B for the interim.
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Hmm.. Hope all's is well with the Laughlin family!
Lets do this!!
They just said we're playing with 7 D tonight (McIlrath is in) What forward got scratched?
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Lapierre is a “healthy scratch”
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PP time
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Healty scratch? Eeek. Didn't know he'd been playing THAT bad??
I suppose we've improved some on PP faceoffs. But if they keep a stat for "entering the zone" on the PP, I imagine we're at the bottom half of the barrel. I don't watch much other hockey than Caps games, but we struggle more than anyone we play, entering the zone.. :-(
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Lapierre had been moved back to center with Eller out. Management clearly thinks he’s better at wing, maybe going back to center was messing up his game.
It is flu season, but when a player has the flu they don’t hide it.
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PK time
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:poop:
:clown: :O=
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Caps down 1-0 after one
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Fart noise.. Not playing bad, not playing good. Just kinda going through the motions so far.
LILITH SURREY, YOU GET YOUR BUTT OUTTA THAT BED!!!! :raised-eyebrow:
:snicker:
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Didn't think we played that bad, but we're gettin killed in every category[size=78%]. [/size]
https://twitter.com/Capitals/status/1871358107294785732
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PP time
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Goal baby!!
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PP GOOOAAALLLL
VRANA
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I guess that’s why Vrana is on PP2 in place of Miro
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nother pk . .
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The Snake!!!
Figures they'd call a tacky trip while battling for the puck. See if we can kill one!
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1 to 1 after two
Pastrnak hasn’t played since about halfway through the 2nd, he was in obvious discomfort before that
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nother pp . . . a 5:00 PP
Vrana to the locker room, hopefully temporarily
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Ouch that was a pretty nasty hit Fehrervary took.😨
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Caps are just under %20 on the faceoff
:O=
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PP is ass.. Snipes are about all we can hope for. :-( We'll see, probably cost us at least 1 point.
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piss poor power play.. pathetic even
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Boston playing all of the 3rd without Pastrnak, and nearly the entire period without Wahlstrom for the hit on Fever
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nother pk . . .
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:O= :O=
:clown: :poop:
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:O= :O= :O=
:clown: :poop: :poop: :poop:
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Can't get a 5 minute PP in the 3rd, not even put a shot on goal and expect anything good to happen after..
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!! See you guys after the break!
Hope Ovi is back Saturday at 7pm.
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Caps and Bruins get to do it again on New Year’s Eve
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Caps lose 4-1
:O=
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Me thinks the Caps may have had their Christmas party last night......
The first period was lively, but after that not so much.
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On the bright side, the Caps are doing much better than expected this season, so.. merry Christmas
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This overtook the Chicago game as the worst of the season. 5 minute PP and no shots? They haven't been generating nearly enough shots on goal over the last 5-6 games. I'm hoping they wake up after this break because they haven't looked that good, even in the wins lately.
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Yes and they were challenged physically. They held up ok, but by no means is this team nasty enough for the playoffs. McIlrath would help but he can't crack the top 6. I really wish they would get Alexyev in the mix and tell him he either uses that big body or he is gone. I'd like to see him replace TVR. I thought Roy was supposed to be a tough guy, but he is not that big or aggressive. He is solid and playing well, but not what I expected.
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Roy's another overpaid for what he's bringing to the table. 5.75m x 6 seems like an awful lot of $$ to just be a decent blueliner. Maybe all the salaries for "decent" play are going up and I just haven't paid attention..
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Roy's another overpaid for what he's bringing to the table. 5.75m x 6 seems like an awful lot of $$ to just be a decent blueliner. Maybe all the salaries for "decent" play are going up and I just haven't paid attention..
Roy is the type of solid plus guy you need on the blue line, even if he's not a big hitter. I think this was an excellent pickup by the FO, as was Chychrun. I love what Chychrun brings to the table with his skating and scoring ability but he's also just a year or two removed from a -30 season. So, if you have guys like him, you need guys like Roy to even things out. Frankly, the weakest link on the current defense corps is Carlson. He's slow and the number of times he turns the puck over in our own end is pretty frightening.