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R1G3 Caps lead 2-0
April 25 vs Canadiens at Bell Centre
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports, TNT
Radio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7
Washington Capitals (M1) 51-22-9
Montreal Canadiens(WC2) 40-31-11
Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Beauvillier 72
McMichael 24 - Dubois 80 - Wilson(A) 43
Mangiapane 88 - Eller 20 - Leonard 9
Duhaime 22 - Dowd 26 - Raddysh 16
Chychrun 6 - Carlson(A) 74
Roy 3 - Sandin 38
Alexeyev 27 - van Riemsdyk 57
Thompson 48
Lindgren 79 - backup
PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Chychrun, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, McMichael, Dubois, Mangiapane, Sandin
scratched:
Frank 53
Bear 25
McIlrath 52
Stevenson 33
injured:
Protas 21 - lower body
Fehérváry 42 - lower body - season
LTIR:
Milano 15 - upper body
Backstrom 19 - hip - season
Oshie 77 - back - season
Habs anticipated lines:
Caufield 13 - Suzuki(C) 14 - Slafkovský 20
Anderson 17 - Dvorak 28 - Gallagher(A) 11
Newhook 15 - Evans 71 - Demidov 93
Heineman 51 - Kapanen 91 - Armia 40
Matheson(A) 8 - Carrier 45
Guhle 21 - Hutson 48
Xhekaj 72 - Savard 58
Montembeault 35
Dobes 75 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Francis Charron 6, Graham Skilliter 24
Shandor Alfonso 52, Kyle Flemington 55
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/04/48341/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-4-25-25/ (https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/04/48341/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-4-25-25/)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x7312 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x7312)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/scene-shifts-to-montreal-for-game-3 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/scene-shifts-to-montreal-for-game-3)
scoring summary
1st period:
McMichael(3) from Roy and Sandin at 3:20
Carrier from Newhook at 19:07
2nd period:
Suzuki PPG unassisted at 8:37
Chychrun(1) from Mangiapane and Eller at 10:47
Caufield from Hutson at 19:51
3rd period:
Ovechkin(3) from Strome and Beauvillier at 2:39
Dvorak from Savard and Armia at 4:17
Slafkovsky from Caufield at 13:23
Newhook PPG from Gallagher and Matheson at 17:35
Caps lose 6-3
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LGC
Hey, I'm a retired Federal bureaucrat. What would you expect, except an acronym??
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Morning. :wackysmile:
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:wackysmile:
:hopslam:
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Habs have dressed Xhekaj, considered their “enforcer”.
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GOOOAAALLLL
MCMICHAEL
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:banana:
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Feisty, as expected.
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Evenin
Nice to get 1 early. Be cool to win a puck battle here sometime soon. :wackysmile:
Frank got a penalty?? BS.
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:bs: And so it starts......
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PP time
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:poop:
:clown: :O=
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Bloody hail. 🤢🤮
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nother PP . .
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1 to 1 after one
Caps will start the 2nd with 1:20 of PP
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Not enough checking so far.
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Doubled up on shots, doubled up on zone time. Fortunate to be tied. If Thompson's head hurts during intermission, we're toast. :-( It's really too bad we lost Fever. That pretty much takes away any chance of going deep in the playoffs. We can't even handle the 8 seed when they start pressing.
https://twitter.com/Capitals/status/1915917905327247787
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Thompson isn't looking so hot right now?
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nother PK . .
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:O= :O=
:clown: :poop:
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Ouch
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(https://i.postimg.cc/VL2vcgN0/giphy.gif) (https://postimages.org/)
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GOOOAAALLLL
CHYCHRUN
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:b:
:banana: :banana:
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(https://i.postimg.cc/C16Bngwm/tumblr-nl751i-No2-I1qz9wlpo1-640.gif) (https://postimages.org/)
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nother PK . . .
Montreal changed the goalie, no word on why.
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I guess we're scared we may score on this mf. Everybody over passing. >:(
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that was some stupid passing
:poop: :poop: :poop:
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OMG! In the last minute AGAIN! :O=
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Caps down 3-2 after two
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We're a :clown: show tonight.
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I’d say Wilson and Anderson are going to hit the showers early
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🤢🤮😭
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We're gonna need one of them there big thirds.
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We're gonna need one of them there big thirds.
The Caps peter out in the third.
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Eller was interviewed during the intermission, had to be bleeped a few times
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Y'all know that the Willy crying face is a gif right?
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Wilson and Anderson got 2 plus 10 minutes each, but not game. Matching minors for Eller and Xhekaj.
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Wilson and Anderson got 2 plus 10 minutes each, but not game. Matching minors for Eller and Xhekaj.
I'm surprised. I'd have thought that would be Willy done. You know they were looking for any excuse.
What the f did Eller do?
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See if we can tie this up and possibly steal one.. Not looking too promising though. Terrible passing and overall play in our own zone. :-\
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See if we can tie this up and possibly steal one.. Not looking too promising though. Terrible passing and overall play in our own zone. :-\
Nothing new there then. :(
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I'm surprised. I'd have thought that would be Willy done. You know they were looking for any excuse.
What the f did Eller do?
If they threw Willy out they have had to throw Anderson out as well.
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GOOOAAALLLL
OVECHKIN
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:banana: :banana: :banana:
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The Great 8 in the clutch, baby!!
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:raised-eyebrow:
:O= :O= :O= :O=
:clown: :clown: :clown: :clown:
:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
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I will say, I was not expecting the Caps to sweep this series. But it would be nice to get it over in 5.
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🤢🤮😢
🤢🤮🤯
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nother PK . . . .
because the Habs haven’t done a thing to deserve a penalty tonight
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some people thought it was us that was going to get swept. ;)
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We look like we've given up.
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:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
that’s that, game 5 will be necessary
and Thompson is taken out by his own guy
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That's that methinks.
Habs definitely wanted it more.
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lol. Just pack it up and get a tee time boys. Fucking goalie has no stick and we're too dumb to just ice the puck and stop play? Fucking retarded. And Strome runs over Thompson. The :clown: :poop: never disappoints with this bunch.
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Great. Now Thommy's out. :suicide:
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passing has sucked goose shit tonight
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(https://i.postimg.cc/52TsL6mF/aliens-thats-greatman.gif) (https://postimages.org/)
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Thompson's looked like a spaz since he took the stick to the head anyway. Probably a knee injury. Hopefully their guy is out next game too. Still baffled he lost his stick twice and nobody thought icing the puck was a decent idea. Just, baffling. lol
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::)
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nother PK . . . . .
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Caps have had 2 power plays, because the Habs are playing that clean of a game
::)
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:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
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If there was an award for shitting yourself, we'd win it every year.
Sunday at 6:30. See if we can show more of that poise they talked about all year. :rofl:
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Caps lose 6-3, Caps lead series 2-1
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I we can't stop them scoring on us, we need to put more shots in their net and stop fannying about.
Time to see what the damage is.... I expect Protus will be in for the next game.
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Night night peeps. :yawn:
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God this game pissed me off. No fucking urgency, no hitting, no forechecking, horrible passes to nobody or the other team and then we take out our own best player. I knew from the opening faceoff we were going to lose. The puck was dropped and went toward Montreal's end and Dowd was skating back toward our own end. This is just horrific coaching. Terrible, dreadful. To top it off we directly assisted on two of their goals and tipped in another. Yea, the refs were horrendous but we deserved to lose in every way. We looked like the nervous newbies who had never been in a playoff game. I've seen this story so many times before. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we lose the next three games.
PS- for the love of God keep Carlson off the PK. Sandin should be scratched, too.
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God this game pissed me off. No fucking urgency, no hitting, no forechecking, horrible passes to nobody or the other team and then we take out our own best player. I knew from the opening faceoff we were going to lose. The puck was dropped and went toward Montreal's end and Dowd was skating back toward our own end. This is just horrific coaching. Terrible, dreadful. To top it off we directly assisted on two of their goals and tipped in another. Yea, the refs were horrendous but we deserved to lose in every way. We looked like the nervous newbies who had never been in a playoff game. I've seen this story so many times before. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we lose the next three games.
PS- for the love of God keep Carlson off the PK. Sandin should be scratched, too.
:lol: Wayne fucking read my mind
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I just rewatched the 9min condensed game. Man we were bad, but there were really bad passes and bad bounces that did us in.
1st goal - we have a chance and just fail to clear the puck (McMike) and they shoot and score through a screen.
2nd goal - Dowd actually wins important draw and Carlson just feeding Suzuki is in the slot is laughable
3rd goal - Sandin gently passing up to...I guess Ovi on the blue line and the guy jumpin in to steal and feeds Caufield..(maybe Sandin was passing to Roy to further bump out...and this may be an issue of them not playing together normally)
4th goal - Duhame actually makes a perfect tip-in between Thompson's legs.
5th goal - Raddysh actually mishandles a pass out our blue line and feeds there rush up ice for essentially a 2 on 1, then Stromer crashes into Thompson to put exclamation point on the :clown: :poop: . So rewatching this...Stromer crashes his skate boot directly into Thompsons jewels as the initial point of contact so I'm hoping that is the extent of the lower body issue. The cross check to the throat and riding him to the ice might be another issue.
6th goal - they dump it in and the guy who dumps it is 1st to the puck (ahem Carlson watches) then we coast about while they make 3 good passes and both D (ahem...Carlson, Sandin) are out of position, they shoot upstairs on Lindgren and you score. Why every single team in the NHL did not figure this out all year is beyond me. If Thompson is out..our season is over. Lindgren certainly helped the Caps over the past two seasons but he's not a top tier goalie. He is weak upstairs as he leaves way too much exposed up top...it's just the way he plays.
We actually had 3 nice goals of our own, but the rest was truly :clown: :poop:
Carlson and Sandin should never ever ever be on the ice together. Carlson has to be hurt, he has never been this bad...he can't keep up with the play and is lagging around even in his own end. I hope it's a nagging injury because if this is just the 35 year old Carlson, I can't wait to see him all next year at 36.
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Apart from all the major Fup's as already stated, the one thing we didn't do this game that I believe helped us win game 2, was the checking, or lack thereof. Letting them buzz around and goad us all game is our own fault.
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Also, the disparity of shots on goal was shocking.