GDT #68 Caps at Rangers @ 7pm

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March 14 vs Rangers at Madison Square Garden
Time: 7:00
TV: ESPN
Radio: 106.7 FM

Washington Capitals  32-28-7
PP% 20.5(20th)  PK% 82.9(6th)  Faceoff% 49.6(18th)
New York Rangers 37-19-10
PP% 23.3(9th)  PK% 79.3(17th)  Faceoff% 49.1(21st)

Caps anticipated lines:
Sheary 73 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Mantha 39 - Backstrom 19 - Smith 16
Snively 91 - Strome 17 - Oshie 77
Protas 59 - Dowd 26 - Aubé-Kubel 96

Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Fehervary 42 - Jensen 3
Irwin 52 - Alexeyev 27

Kuemper 35

PP1: Oshie, Backstrom, Kuznetsov, Sandin
PP2: Wilson, Strome, Mantha, van Riemsdyk

scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Carlsson 18
Ovechkin 8 - lower body - day to day
Milano 15 - flu

IR/LTIR:
Brown 28 - knee
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face/head

Rangers anticipated lines:
Panarin 10 - Zibanejad 93 - Tarasenko 91
Kreider 20 - Trocheck 16 - Kane 88
Lafreniere 13 - Chytil 72 - Kakko 24
Vesey 26 - Goodrow 21 - Motte 14

Miller 79 - Trouba(C) 8
Mikkola 77 - Fox 23
Harpur 5 - Schneider 4

Shesterkin 31
Halak 41 - backup

tonight’s zebras:
Francis Charron 6, Garrett Rank 7
Derek Nansen 70, Bryan Pancich 94

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-tangle-with-rangers-at-msg/c-342188756

scoring summary
1st period:
Zibanejad from Tarasenko at 4:09
Aubé-Kubel(4) from Protas(8 and Irwin(3) at 14:29
Zibanejad from Panarin and Shesterkin at 14:45
Kane PPG from Fox and Trocheck at 18:46
2nd period:
Trouba from Trocheck and Kane at 4:09
Irwin(2) from Oshie(14) and Sandin(24) at 12:08
3rd period:
Dowd(12) from Strome(32) at 11:48
Vesey ENG unassisted at 17:49

Caps lose 5-3

[Mickstix]

Suppose we'll find out if the better teams just been overlooking us (ie: trap games) or if we're serious.    Saw we still only have like a 6% chance of the loffs, but I guess until it's over, it's not over.

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Milano out - flu, Protas in

OV is a game time decision, Kuemper in net

[Mickstix]

So "maintenance day" was for an actual injury of some sort.    No way to get a maximum win w/o an Ovi goal. Hope he can go! 

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update, OV out, Snively in. I can’t wait to see what Lavi does with this 

[Mickstix]

Good for Snively.    My guess is he'll just move everyone up a line, from what you have posted above.

[Mickstix]

Sheary, Mantha, Snively, Protas on the left side.. Not sure what makes Sheary the top LW, but here we are! 

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Joe B and Lacher have the radio call tonight, this gonna put me about 35 seconds behind the live video

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[Mickstix]

WhooBoy do we look good tonight! 0 shots on goal, about 30 seconds total zone time, down 1(could be 2 or 3) half way through the period! 

[Mickstix]

Aube! Showin a little life here!

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GOOOAAALLLL

AUBÉ-KUBEL

[Mickstix]

Oh well, short lived. 

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[Mickstix]

Alexeyev got abused and Nicky was a mile behind the play. 

[Mickstix]

Ballgame. 

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it feels like this should be the 3rd, not the 1st

[Mickstix]

Can't take getting a beating and listening to the NY homers at the same time. Tuned into Caps Radio 24/7 and it's a podcast or something, talking about the Caps. No JoeB/Locker? Is it just because it's intermission or am I in the wrong place?

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I haven’t used the caps radio app in years because of things like that. You should be able to get 106.7 over the interwebs, but I’d go directly to the station website, their app is worse than the caps.