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Talk about Capitals hockey & more! => Washington Capitals & Other Hockey Discussion => Topic started by: alta on Saturday November 01, 2025, 04:35:45 PM Eastern
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November 1 vs Sabres at KeyBank Center
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Soorts 2
Radio: 106.7FM, Caps Radio Network
Washington Capitals 6-5-0
PP% 16.7(24th) PK% 72.7(24th) Faceoff% 46.7(25th)
Buffalo Sabres 4-4-3
PP% 21.6(14th) PK% 89.5(2nd) Faceoff% 42(32nd)
Caps anticipated lines:
Milano 15 - Lapierre 29 - Ovechkin(C) 8
Protas 21 - McMichael 24 - Wilson(A) 43
Beauvillier 72 - Strome 17 - Leonard 9
Duhaime 22 - Dowd 26 - Sourdif 34
Fehérváry 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Chychrun 6 - Roy 3
Chisholm 47 - van Riemsdyk 57
Lindgren 79
Thompson 48 - backup
PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Chychrun, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, McMichael, Leonard, Milano, Chisholm
scratched:
Smallman 81
McIlrath 52
Dubois 80 - lower body - day to day
IR:
Sandin 38 - upper body
Frank 53 - upper body
Sabres anticipated lines:
Zucker 17 - Greenway 12 - Thompson(A) 72
Doan 91 - McLeod 71 - Tuch(A) 89
Rosen 63 - Kulich 20 - Quinn 22
Dunne 44 - Krebs 19 - Malenstyn 29
Samuelsson 23 - Dahlin(C) 26
Power 25 - Timmins 21
Byram 4 - Kesselring 8
Luukkonen 1
Lyon 34 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Garrett Rank 7, Liam Maaskant 45
Brad Kovachik 71, Devin Berg 87
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-take-on-sabres-in-buffalo-x5886 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-take-on-sabres-in-buffalo-x5886)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x9042 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x9042)
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/11/50125/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-11-1-25/ (https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/11/50125/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-11-1-25/)
scoring summary
1st period:
Strome(3) from Beauvillier and Leonard at 1:07
Protas(5) from McMichael and Wilson at 2:15
Thompson unassisted at 2:30
Tuch from Doan and Power at 10:02
Rosen from Quinn and Timmins at 18:45
2nd period:
Milano(1) from Roy and Fehérváry at 19:17
3rd period:
no goals
OT:
no goals
SO:
Quinn ❎ Strome ❎
Thompson ❎ Beauvillier ❎
Tuch ❎ McMichael ❎
Dahlin ❎ Ovechkin ❎
Byram ✅ Leonard ❎
Caps lose 4-3
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Coach said Strome is a game time decision. They will see how he feels after pregame warmups. If Strome can’t play Smallman will get a sweater.
and Strome is in as the Caps try not to lose 4 in a row
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Carlson is playing in his 1,100 game tonight. Just the 3rd person to do so as a Cap, behind Ovechkin(1,502) and Backstrom(1,105).
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Buffalo thinks their in Canada? :huh: Just sang the Canadian national anthem. lol
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GOOOAAALLLL
STROME
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Buffalo thinks their in Canada? :huh: Just sang the Canadian national anthem. lol
I don’t recall seeing that before. But the only time I watch the Sabres is when they play the Caps.
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GOOOAAALLLL
PROTAS
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:O=
:clown: :poop:
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gonna be one of those nights …
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PK time
:clown: :poop:
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Chisholm going to the locker room after the head hit from Greenway, he looked ok, likely a required concussion check
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:poop: :poop:
:clown: :O=
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:poop: :poop: :poop:
:clown: :O=
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Caps down 3-2 after one
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We're not terrible when everyone's on the ice. But losing Wilson for 17 minutes killed us. Games w/o Strome kill us. If Protas missed games it'd probably kill us. We're just not good enough or have any depth to absorb even one of out top players missing ice time.
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PP time
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nother pk . .
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GOOOAAALLLL
MILANO
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bullshit on the embellishment
phukin zebras
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3-3 after two
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nother pk . . .
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nother pp . .
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nother pp . . .
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nother pp . . . .
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3-3 after three, extra time needed
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shoot out
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Team has a talent problem. Good hustle, poor talent. I'd say they need to shorten the leash on Ovi but everybody else sucks too so.. Whatever.
Off till Wednesday!
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Caps lose 4-3 in the shoot out, five rounds
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I just don't get Carbs choices in the shootout. The guys that seem to score the most in shootouts are the ones that cruise in and shoot from 10 feet away - or the super-skilled stick handling guys or which the Caps have none. Why not have Protas and Chicky out there to shoot from 10 feet?
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So we have five guys that are basically the same player - undersized forwards that can have a good game every once in a while, but are generally pretty invisible - Lappy, Beauvy, Sourdif, Milano and McMike. They are all decent complimentary players, but a good NHL team can get away with one or two of them - not 5! McMike is a keeper, but the rest can go.
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0 goals on 5 shootout attempts aint good.
Honestly i have no problem with Strome, McMike, and Lenny out there...they all have very good hands and Lenny flat out made the goalie look bad on his one previous SO attempt.
Got no problem with Beavy but I'd put Protas and several others out before him, and sad to say it, but Ovi's SO days are over (or should be).
I think there's more art than science to the SO, and with a team that just doesn't have tons of top end talent, it's hard to pick em. We just don't have any great goto guys for the SO.
Nice to see Milano score btw. Sure would be nice to see Ovi net a couple soon.