GDT #71 Caps at Wild @ 2pm

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March 19 vs Wild at Xcel Energy Center
Time: 2:00
TV: NBCSW
Radio: 106.7 FM

Washington Capitals 33-30-7
PP% 20.8(19th)  PK% 82.8 (5th)  Faceoff% 50(17th)
Minnesota Wild 39-22-8
PP% 22.6(10th)  PK% 80.8(12th)  Faceoff% 47.6(26th)

Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Sheary 73
Oshie 77 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Milano 15 - Backstrom 19 - Smith 16
Protas 59 - Dowd 26 - Aubé-Kubel 96

Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Alexeyev 27 - Fehervary 42
Irwin 52 - Carlsson 18

Lindgren 79

PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Strome, Backstrom, Sandin
PP2: Wilson, Kuznetsov, Smith, Sheary, van Riemsdyk

scratched:
Fucale 60 - backup
Mantha 39
Jensen 3 - upper body - day to day
Kuemper 35 - upper body - day to day

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

Wild anticipated lines:
Steel 13 - Hartman 38 - Zuccarello 36
Johansson 90 - Eriksson Ek 14 - Boldy 12
Duhaime 21 - Gaudreau 89 - Sundqvist 70
Shaw 15 - Dewar 26 - Reaves 75

Middleton 5 - Spurgeon 46
Brodin 25 - Dumba 24
Goligoski 33 - Klingsberg 3

Fleury 29

todays zebras:
Kyle Rehman 10, Kevin Pollock 33
Scott Cherrey 50, Ben O’Quinn 91

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-spend-sunday-in-st-paul/c-342406828

scoring summary
1st period:
Boldy from Johansson and Gaudreau at :50
Boldy from Johansson and Eriksson Ek at 4:36
2nd period:
Ovechkin(38) PPG from Sandin(26) at 5:35
Reeves from Hartman and Shaw at 10:14
3rd period:
Duhaime from Sundqvist at 3:46
Ovechkin(39) PPG from Strome(35) at 12:33
Boldy unassisted at 13:59
Strome(17) from Wilson(5) and Ovechkin(29) at 16:26

Caps lose 5-3

[Mickstix]

Good grief, it's almost time for these dopes to play again? I've not got the bad taste outta my mouth from Friday yet.    Read that Ovi and Jensen didn't practice yesterday and Kemper left with an UBI. Oh the joy.. 

[BlackIce]

Good grief, it's almost time for these dopes to play again? I've not got the bad taste outta my mouth from Friday yet.    Read that Ovi and Jensen didn't practice yesterday and Kemper left with an UBI. Oh the joy.. 

Perhaps the single most surprising stat about this year's team is that they have fought their way to a 50% face-off percentage as a team.  Thy have been a terrible face-off team the past few years, and there hasn't been a personnel turnover to suggest that they would be that much better this season.

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I didn’t look at team stats from Friday, but they must won over %90 of the faceoffs for the percentage to go up like that this late in the season.


Word is OV is in, Mantha is a scratch again

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should’ve been boarding on Steel

[Surreylily]

Whoops, late again.
Evenin' all.   

[Surreylily]

I think it's very chivalrous of our guys to wait tilll I turned up before they get going.........   

[Mickstix]

Only gave up 2 in the 1st period!    It's getting kinda disturbing how bad we are.. No way they extend Lavi. (from Alta's post last game) I mean, what would be the point? His contract is up, brings absolutely nothing. It'd be like resigning Mantha for 5.7m or something.. (so they'll probably do it) lol


But they stink man. Vets like Ovi and Oshi, Kuzy doing dumb shit that leads to odd mans. Our forward lines are healthy yet couldn't create dough with salt, flour and water. It's, not good. They really need to bury Ovi, Nicky and Oshie on a line and just double shift everyone else until there's a PP. It's unfortunate we have YEARS of this shit to watch before it'll get better. 

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PP GOOOAAALLLL

OVECHKIN

[Surreylily]

oh joy.  A PP     

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BIG BOY SIGHTING!
 

 

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[Mickstix]

Meh, Ovi scored. All that matters. 

[Surreylily]

Don't give up just yet.  We've been better at away games.
But yeah, Ovi scored, so.....

[Surreylily]

Oooooffff!
Deliberate head shot?

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and the NHL can’t figure out way no one thinks the officiating is fair

[Surreylily]

  Wild get the PP after that?
 

[Surreylily]

REFS YOU SUCK.   
Just noticed, it's Kevin Bollocks.  I am no longer surprised.