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Talk about Capitals hockey & more! => Washington Capitals & Other Hockey Discussion => Topic started by: alta on Tuesday December 16, 2025, 12:53:01 PM Eastern
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December 16 vs Wild at Grand Casino Arena
Time: 8:00
TV: Monumental Sports
Radio: 106.7FM, Caps Radio Network
Washington Capitals 18-10-3
PP% 16(26th) PK% 75.5(28th) Faceoff% 48.1(23rd)
Minnesota Wild 19-9-5
PP% 23(8th) PK% 78.5(22nd) Faceoff% 47(27th)
Caps anticipated lines:
Beauvillier 72 - Strome 17 - Ovechkin(C) 8
Protas 21 - Sourdif 34 - Wilson(A) 43
Milano 15 - Lapierre 29 - Frank 53
Duhaime 22 - Dowd 26 - McMichael 24
Fehérváry 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Chychrun 6 - Roy 3
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Lindgren 79
Thompson 48 - backup
PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Frank, Chychrun
PP2: Ovechkin, McMichael, Milano, Beauvillier, Carlson
scratched:
Trineyev 87
Chisholm 47
McIlrath 52
IR:
Leonard 9 - upper body
Dubois 80 - lower body
Wild anticipated lines:
Kaprizov(A) 97 - Eriksson-Ek 14 - Boldy 12
Trenin 13 - Yurov 22 - Tarasenko 91
Foligno(A) 17 - Hartman 38 - Aube-Kubel 16
Jones 39 - Sturm 78 - Pitlick 19
Hughes 43 - Faber 7
Hunt 48 - Spurgeon(C) 46
Kiersted 26 - Jircek 55
Gustavsson 32
Wallstedt 30 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Kyle Rehman 10, Corey Syvret 23
Travis Toomey 90, Kilian McNamara 93
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-tangle-with-wild (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-tangle-with-wild)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x4180 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x4180)
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/12/50639/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-16-25/ (https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/12/50639/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-16-25/)
scoring summary
1st period:
Tarasenko from Yurov and Faber at 2:09
2nd period:
Kaprizov PPG from Eriksson Ek and Hughes at 12:51
3rd period:
Tarasenko from Yurov at 4:23
Yurov from Tarasenko at 8:53
Boldy SHG from Kiersted at 14:12
Caps lose 5-0
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Hour late puck drop? :raised-eyebrow: Hopefully they left the stinks in Winnipeg!
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Oshie in the booth with Joe B and Lacher tonight
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:poop:
:clown: :O=
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PP time
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If ya can't look good, look lucky! Need this PP to give us a spark.
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PK time
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Oh well. So much for wishing luck. Lease we killed the penalty at the end of the period.
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Caps down 1-0 after one
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nother pk . .
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:poop: :poop:
:clown: :O=
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Looking a 3 game loser in the face. Another night just wondering if we'll get shutout. Love hockey!! lol
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nother pk . . .
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Caps down 2-0 after two
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Locker trying to convince us how great Gustavsson is playing. I bet 99% of our shots have hit him or his stick dead center mass. Nobody has the skill to aim for a corner I guess. :-(
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:poop: :poop: :poop:
:O= :clown:
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that’s that
:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
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I'm not even gonna stick around to see the shutout. Catch ya Thursday!
Lose Leonard and gain Carlson and this is the product..
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nother pp . .
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shorty
:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
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nother pk . . . .
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Caps lose 5-0
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I'm not even gonna stick around to see the shutout. Catch ya Thursday!
I aint no quitter...I started this mess and I'm gonna finish it! :raspberry:
(well i was mostly looking at my laptop and dozing, but I finished it)
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I actually thought they played pretty well in the first couple periods. Chucky was not on his game and that cost them. He can be really good at times, but is just not consistent and lets in too many bad goals. Of course they could have played a little better defense in front of him
McMike has been pretty much non-existent the last couple games and I'm afraid Lappy is on the verge of being benched. Milano should be benched.
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The Caps definitely looked better against the Wild than they did against the Jets. I’m not surprised at Lindy’s performance, being his first game back from an injury. But he could’ve had better support too.
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Yea, all that talk about the "Come back Caps" has long past. Once we get behind by 2, it's time to find something else to watch. Caps look like they just give up. Not nearly the "push back" we see from other teams when they get behind. You can see the life drain out of us in real time. lol