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December 23 vs Rangers at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports 2
Radio: 106.7FM, Caps Radio Network
Washington Capitals 19-12-5
PP% 14.7(29th) PK% 76.8(25th) Faceoff% 48.3(23rd)
New York Rangers 18-16-4
PP% 18.7(18th) PK% 81.1(16th) Faceoff% 54.2(3rd)
Caps anticipated lines:
McMichael 24 - Sourdif 34 - Ovechkin(C) 8
Protas 21 - Strome 17 - Leonard 9
Beauvillier 72 - Dowd(A) 26 - Frank 53
Duhaime 22 - Lapierre 29 - Milano 15
Fehérváry 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Chychrun 6 - Roy 3
Chisholm 47 - van Riemsdyk 57
Thompson 48
Lindgren 79 - backup
PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, McMichael, Leonard, Chychrun
PP2: Ovechkin, Frank, Sourdif, Beauvillier, Carlson
scratched:
McIlrath 52
Wilson(A) 43 - flu
Sandin 38 - upper body
IR:
Dubois 80 - lower body
Rangers anticipated lines:
Panarin(A) 10 - Zibanejad(A) 93 - Lafreniere 13
Cuylle 50 - Trocheck(A) 16 - Perreault 94
Brodzinski 22 - Laba 42 - Raddysh 14
Othmann 78 - Carrick 39 - Rempe 73
Gavrikov 44 - Schneider 4
Soucy 24 - Borgen 17
Robertson 29 - Morrow 60
Shesterkin 31
Quick 32 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Kelly Sutherland 11, Jordan Samuels-Thomas 37
Dylan Blujus 57, Libor Suchanek 60
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-meet-blueshirts-in-metro-clash (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-meet-blueshirts-in-metro-clash)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x4458 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x4458)
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/12/50684/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-23-25/ (https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/12/50684/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-23-25/)
scoring summary
1st period:
Raddysh from Brodzinski and Schneider at 14:57
2nd period:
Carlson[8] from Protas and Leonard at :23
Strome(7) PPG from McMichael and Leonard at 8:40
Cuylle PPG from Zibanejad and Trocheck at 11:14
Protas(13) from Milano and Lapierre at 12:11
3rd period:
Raddysh from Cuylle and Laba at 8:10
Lafreniere from Panarin and Morrow at 9:18
Trocheck from Brodzinski and Perreault at 13:43
Panarin ENG from Zibanejad and Lafreniere at 17:44
Trocheck from Cuylle and Raddysh at 18:09
Caps lose 7-3
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Bring It!
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Anything but 5v5, we suck at. Look at those #'s for PP, PK, Faceoffs. :(
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Willy out, flu. Sandin out, upper body.
Miro sent back to Hershey to make room for Leonard being activated off of IR.
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PK time
4:00
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kilt it, Rags only had 2 shots
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Nice PK.
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:poop:
:clown: :O=
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And one trip down the ice. bing bam boom. :clown: :poop:
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Started out pretty good. Missed a couple good chances. Gave up a goal. Look defeated from then on. Is it becoming an MO? :-| See what the 2nd brings..
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Caps down 1-0 after one
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GOOOAAALLLL
CARLSON
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PP time
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nother pp . .
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PP GOOOAAALLLL
STROME
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phukin zebras finally call one for the Caps
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nother pk . . .
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:poop: :poop:
:clown: :O=
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GOOOAAALLLL
PROTAS
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Caps up 3-2 after two
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Still shocked they gave us the Strome goal. Never did get a clean look at it IN the net. But the NHL loves the "it probably was" calls. :rofl:
Leonard looks good! Need for the old man to get one.
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:goalie:
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nother pk . . . .
OV had a brain fart
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:poop: :poop: :poop:
:clown: :O= :clown: :O= :clown: :O=
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:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
dafuk
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:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
what the fuck
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:goalie:
Merry Christmas. Guess we'll win another game sometime this year. See ya Saturday night.
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someone set fire to the building already
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Caps lose 7-3
Rags fans act like they won The Cup
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Well - that was disappointing - expected a better effort right before the break. Even so, I thought Beauvy was one of the guys that played weil and Milano did Ok. Only bright spot was Lenny.
On the negative side, I thought out entire D stunk tonight. Very soft and Carlson led the way. Man, I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hope they don't resign him.
I'm also getting worried about the resigning of Ovi. The longer the season goes on and he doesn't announce his retirement, the more likely it is that he comes back for one more year. If he does, he has the Caps in a bind. He can pretty much name his price and the Caps have to pay him.
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So I think that game just shows how critical Willy is to this team. Without him, we are physically easy to play against. Nobody has to worry about any of our guys hitting them and they can just buzz around at will. Not sure there is an answer as the only other regular starter that is even remotely tough is Duhaime.