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Talk about Capitals hockey & more! => Washington Capitals & Other Hockey Discussion => Topic started by: alta on Monday December 29, 2025, 02:48:33 PM Eastern
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December 29 vs Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports
Radio: 106.7FM, Caps Radio Network
Washington Capitals 20-13-5
PP% 15.1(29th) PK% 76.3(26th) Faceoff% 48.7(23rd)
Florida Panthers 20-15-2
PP% 18.4(18th) PK% 83.1(6th) Faceoff% 47.5(25th)
Caps anticipated lines:
Protas 21 - Sourdif 34 - Ovechkin(C) 8
McMichael 24 - Strome 17 - Wilson(A) 43
Beauvillier 72 - Dowd 26 - Leonard 9
Duhaime 22 - Lapierre 29 - Frank 53
Fehérváry 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Chychrun 6 - Roy 3
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Thompson 48
Lindgren 79 - backup
PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Leonard, Chychrun
PP2: Ovechkin, McMichael, Frank, Sourdif, Carlson
scratched:
Milano 15
Chisholm 47
McIlrath 52
IR:
Dubois 80 - lower body
Cats anticipated lines:
Luostarinen 27 - Lundell 15 - Reinhart(A) 13
Verhaeghe 9 - Bennett 9 - Marchand(A) 63
Samoskevich 11 - Rodrigues 17 - Greer 10
Boqvist 70 - Kunin 71 - Studnicka 53
Forsling 42 - Ekblad(A) 5
Mikkola 77 - Jones 3
Balinskis 26 - Petry 2
Bobrovsky 72
Tarasov 40 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Cody Beach 12, Kendrick Nicholson 30
James Tobias 61, David Brisebois 96
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-finish-trip-in-florida-x1017 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-finish-trip-in-florida-x1017)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x6944 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x6944)
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/12/50715/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-29-25/ (https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/12/50715/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-29-25/)
scoring summary
1st period:
Wilson(18) from Fehérváry and Strome at 3:53
Lundell from Petry at 4:35
Reinhart PPG from Jones and Marchand at 12:45
Wilson(19) PPG from Strome and Chychrun at 19:17
2nd period:
no goals
3rd period:
Strome[8] from Wilson and Protas at 3:11
Marchand from Bennett and Jones at 6:16
Ekblad from Reinhart and Lundell at 13:12
Reinhart ENG from Luostarinen and Ekblad at 19:25
Caps lose 5-3
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Coach got me scratching my head, more than usual. They were killing it before Leonard got hurt. Why not run those same lines??
Beauvillier 72 - Strome 17 - Ovechkin(C) 8
Protas 21 - Sourdif 34 - Wilson(A) 43
Duhaime 22 - McMichael 24 - Leonard 9
Milano 15 - Lapierre 29 Dowd 26 - Frank 53
:huh:
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Franchise regular season game number 4000 tonight
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GOOOAAALLLL
WILSON
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:poop:
:clown: :O=
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PK time
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nother pk . .
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Shitty PP and the PK sucks too. Might as well take a bunch of penalties! Sure that'll work out well. ::)
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:poop: :poop:
:clown: :O=
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Surprise! Not.. :clown: :poop: Fucking McMike sucks. Should of had a shorty. But can't hit the broad side of a fucking barn.
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PP time
:phew:
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nother pp . .
4:00 and 5 on 3 for about a minute
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PP GOOOAAALLLL
WILSON
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still a full 2:00 pp
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2-2 after one
Caps start the 2nd with 1:17 of pp
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nother pp . . . .
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nother pk . . .
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nother pk . . . .
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2-2 after two
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GOOOAAALLLL
PROTAS
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Pretty even game. Duh! lol Seems were chasing more than dictating.
Never mind, Strome scores!! See if we can get through the 3rd w/o giving up multiple goals for a change!
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nother pk . . . . .
WTF was that call?
>:(
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:poop: :poop: :poop:
horse shit
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nother pp . . . . .
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NHL says that’s a Strome goal, but it sure looked like a Protas tip
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nother pk . . . . . .
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I don’t think I’ve seen Carlson skate that fast in 10 years
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:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
:raised-eyebrow: :O=
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Another multi GA 3rd period. :clown: :poop: Need to figure out what the fuck we're doing. >:(
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nother pp . . . . . .
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:poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
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This squad aint even making the playoffs. Fucking pathetic 3rd period again. Coach is dumbass too. Carlson out on PP1 again? Fucking moron.
See ya Wednesday, I guess.. Team is bad for my blood pressure. :clown: :poop:
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Caps lose 5-3
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Another lousy game by McMike and Lenny had a poor performance as well. Was Lappy playing tonight? I thought Carbury said he was going to get him more involved. I don't think I saw him all night.
Overall average effort by an average team.
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yeah that sucked, and Lenny has been mostly bad since his return. OR maybe not bad, but not so noticeable...except in his dumbass penalties.
Caps mostly hung in there vs a better talented team, but the end result was about what should be expected.
It was good to see Strome and Protas, and even Ovie get on the board over the last couple games. Need more out of McMike for sure...He has been about as noticeable as Lappy.
Thompson, Willy, Chychrun continue to be bright spots on this team. Even Roy has looked better/more solid to me this year.
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1st game back, Leonard went into the boards HARD on that same shoulder. Im thinking he's not 100%. (Hoping anyway) lol