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January 2 vs Blackhawks at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports
Radio: 106.7FM, Caps Radio Network
Washington Capitals 21-15-5
PP% 16(28th) PK% 76.7(26th) Faceoff% 48.9(23rd)
Chicago Blackhawks 15-18-7
PP% 21.1(12th) PK% 83.6(4th) Faceoff% 46.4(31st)
Caps anticipated lines:
Beauvillier 72 - Strome 17 - Ovechkin(C) 8
McMichael 24 - Sourdif 34 - Wilson(A) 43
Frank 53 - Dowd 26 - Leonard 9
Duhaime 22 - Lapierre 29 - Milano 15
Fehérváry 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Chychrun 6 - Roy 3
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Thompson 48
Lindgren 79 - backup
PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Leonard, Chychrun, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, McMichael, Frank, Sourdif, Sandin
scratched:
Chisholm 47
McIlrath 52
Protas 21 - lower body
IR:
Dubois 80 - lower body
Hawks anticipated lines:
Bertuzzi 59 - Greene 20 - Burakovsky 28
Teravainen 86 - Moore 11 - Lardis 76
Donato 8 - Dickinson(A) 16 - Mikheyev 95
Dach 34 - Foligno(C) 17 - Slaggert 84
Vlasic 72 - Crevier 46
Kaiser 44 - Levshunov 55
Grzelcyk 48 - Murphy(A) 5
Knight 30
Soderblom 40 - backup
tonight’s zebras:
Kendrick Nicholson 39, Brandon Blandina 39
Ryan Daisy 81, Matt MacPherson 83
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-start-homestand-vs-hawks-on-saturday (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-start-homestand-vs-hawks-on-saturday)
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x0536 (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x0536)
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2026/01/50762/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-1-3-26/#CHIvsWSH (https://scoutingtherefs.com/2026/01/50762/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-1-3-26/#CHIvsWSH)
scoring summary
1st period:
Donato from Mikheyev at 1:13
Strome(10) from Frank and van Riemsdyk at 4:46
2nd period:
Teravainen PPG from Bertuzzi and Burakovsky at 4:24
3rd period:
Leonard[8] from Roy and Beauvillier at 11:18
OT:
no goals
SO:
Leonard ❎ Lardis ✅
Strome ✅ Donato ❎
Beauvillier ❎ Moore ❎
McMichael ❎ Crevier ❎
Milano ✅ Burakovsky ✅
Chychrun ❎ Foligno ✅
Caps lose 3-2.
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Second half of the season starts tonight.
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Protas is a game time decision, ankle.
Milano in, Protas out.
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:clown: :poop: I've seen times when scoring as soon as the game starts still means you get your ass kicked. Lets hope that's the case. This shit gettin old. :sick:
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GOOOAAALLLL
STROME
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Heard Stromer scored while I was mixin one.
Hopefully whatever the D smoked for lunch wears off here soon.. :raised-eyebrow:
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1 to 1 after one
Hope Willy comes back
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Oh well, if Wilson is hurt hurt, aint gonna matter. We're gonna be in trouble.
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Alan May making it sound like they'll probably need to amputate. lol
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PK time
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:poop: :poop:
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Caps down 2-1 after two.
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They all forgot how to play hockey I think? :huh:
Smith Pelly and May now both think they'll need to amputate Wilson's leg. "I don't even want to speculate the worst case scenario" "If you've been on the ice before, you know" Fucking just tell us what you think it is? lol Bro grabbed at this shin. I think anything but knee is a win?
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The guy that nutted Willy is breathing much easier though
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PP time
finally
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GOOOAAALLLL
LEONARD
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2 to 2 after three
extra minutes needed
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nother pk . .
54 seconds remaining in OT
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shoot out time
:-|
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Caps lose 3-2
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:clown: show. Our skills guys are so mid it's not funny. Not that it'd matter. LT and Chuck are also a mess in a SO.
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Two shootout trends.
First, the Blackhawks went glove side on LT on every shot.
Second, the Caps guys almost always swing wide and try and stickhandle and often end up on a failed backhand. Milano came in with speed down the middle. Maybe something they should try more. Dissapointed in Chicky. He should just come in quick and shoot from 10 feat. He has deadly aim - use it!
Finally, Ovi just sat on the bench the whole OT and no shootout - which was good, but I bet he is ticked.
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What's Ovi had, 1 goal in a month? He's pretty useless at the moment. Hopefully he gets pissed off or in shape or whatever it is, by the time the Olympics are over. Can't see any reason for another season, if this is all he has left in the tank. And the team seems to (still) go as he goes. They need to figure out how to compete w/o Ovechkin, sooner than later.