Game 73: 91-42-23-7 (PTS-W-L-OT) Streak - L1
Tue Mar 19, 2019 Washington Capitals @ New Jersey Devils
Place: Prudential Center
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
TV: NBCSWA, NBCSN
Radio: 106.7 The Fan, Caps Radio 24/7
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Last Game: Sat March 16 Capitals Won 6-3 against Lightning
Next Game: Wed Mar 20, 7:30 pm ET Lightning @ Capitals
 8-Ovechkin | 92-Kuznetsov | 43-Wilson |
| 13-Vrana | 19-Bäckström | 77-Oshie |
| 62-Hagelin | 20-Eller | 10-Connolly |
| 65-Burakovsky | 26-Dowd | 18-Stephenson |
| 6-Kempny | 74-Carlson |
| 9-Orlov | 2-Niskanen |
| 29-Djoos | 3-Jensen |
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| 1-Copley (starter) |
| 70-Holtby |
-- SCRATCH -- | 23-Jaskin |
| 72-Boyd |
| 44-Orpik |
-- INJURED RESERVE -- -- 1st Powerplay Unit -- | 92-Kuznetsov | 19-Bäckström | 77-Oshie |
-- 2nd Powerplay Unit -- | 13-Vrana | 20-Eller | 43-Wilson |
Referees: Dan O’Rourke (#9), Jake Brenk (#26)
Linesmen: Steve Barton (#59), Scott Driscoll (#68)
DEVILS LINEUP Blake Coleman - Travis Zajac - Stefan Noesen
Kenny Agostino - Kevin Rooney - Kyle Palmieri
NDrew Stafford - Blake Pietila - Joey Anderson
Eric Tangradi - Michael McLeod - Kurtis Gabriel
Andy Greene - Damon Severson
Will Butcher - Connor Carrick
Egor Yakovlev - Steven Santini
Mackenzie Blackwood (starter)
Cory Schneider
Scratched: Colton White, Nick Lappin
Injured: John Quenneville, Jesper Bratt, Pavel Zacha, Nathan Bastian, Miles Wood, Nico Hischier, Mirco Mueller, Taylor Hall
1st Period02:52 GOAL 65-Burakovsky, assists 26-Dowd & 10-Connolly 1-0 WSH
19:59 Devils GOAL Agostino, unassisted 1-1 TIE
2nd Period05:57 GOAL 10-Connolly, assists 29-Djoos & 63-Hagelin 2-1 WSH
12:16 GOAL 92-Kuznetsov, assist 13-Vrana 3-1 WSH
13:28 GOAL 43-Wilson, assists 8-Ovechkin & 19-Bäckström 4-1 WSH
3rd PeriodNone
FINAL: 4-1 WSH
By Isabelle Khurshudyan March 19 at 2:23 PM
Washington Capitals to celebrate Stanley Cup victory at White House on Monday
The Capitals will celebrate their Stanley Cup victory Monday at the White House. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
The Washington Capitals will join President Trump on Monday to celebrate their 2018 Stanley Cup victory at the White House, according to a team spokesman. The visit will come nearly 10 months after the team won its first championship in franchise history, and the event is expected to be more low-key than some in the past, though plans are still being finalized.
This will be the first Washington professional team to be honored at the White House since D.C. United in 1997. Visiting the White House has long been a tradition for many championship college and professional teams, but it has been mixed with some controversy during Trump’s presidency. In the week after they won the Stanley Cup, most Capitals players said they would want to visit the White House.
“Can’t wait,” captain Alex Ovechkin said in June.
Forward Devante Smith-Pelly, who is black and Canadian, previously said he would not want to be part of a White House ceremony because “the things that [Trump] spews are straight-up racist and sexist,” he told Canada’s Postmedia.
Smith-Pelly was waived in February and sent down to the American Hockey League in a salary cap-clearing move and is no longer with the Capitals, but all members of the 2018 championship are invited and will have the option to attend or decline. Players and coaches new to the team this season will not be part of the visit. Forward Brett Connolly joined Smith-Pelly last year in saying he would also skip a White House visit.
“I don’t think it’s the right thing to do,” Connolly said in August.
“Everyone is entitled to their opinion,” added Connolly, who is Canadian. “I think there’ll be a few guys not going, too. It has nothing to do with politics. It’s about what’s right and wrong, and we’ll leave it at that.”
Trump canceled the 2018 Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles’ visit to the White House after some players said they would skip the ceremony to protest the president and his rhetoric. When the Golden State Warriors won the 2017 NBA championship, multiple players, including Stephen Curry, said they were not in favor of a visit to the White House. They were later disinvited by Trump. The Warriors won another title last year, and rather than visit the White House during their trip to Washington in late January, they met with former president Barack Obama. The team visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture during its trip to Washington the previous February.
The Pittsburgh Penguins visited the White House after both their 2016 and 2017 Stanley Cups. In 2012, then-Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas, an American, skipped the team’s White House ceremony due to his political and ideological differences with the Obama administration. The Capitals went down to the wire with this visit, discussing dates earlier in the season to no avail because of scheduling conflicts.
Clemson, winners of the College Football Playoff, and North Dakota State, seven-time winners of the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision, are the two most recent teams to visit the White House, and both were served a fast-food spread.
“What I have said is, we’re in Washington, D.C., and the players and the coaching staff have to decide,” team owner Ted Leonsis told The Washington Post in October. “I’m not going to influence, and if we go to the White House, I will go to the White House."
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