The Trotz Caps played a good first game on Thursday but got just a single standings point to show for it. At TD Garden at 7 PM tonight, the Caps will have another chance to prove their mettle, this time against last year’s Presidents’ Trophy winner, the Boston Bruins. To sweeten their chances, the Caps have added last year’s best possession player, Mike Green, to the lineup.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 0-0-1 | NotBad% | … | 0.0% | 100% |
| Boston Bruins | 1-1-0 | TooSoon% | ??? | 16.7% | 85.7% |
(Yeaaaah, I’ll get the stats figured out soon.)
Projected Lineup
Mike Green is back, y’all! And Latta looks to take Brown’s spot on the fourth line.
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Fehr
Johansson – Burakovsky – Brouwer
Chimera – Laich – Ward
O’Brien – Kuznetsov – Latta
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Schmidt – Green
Holtby
Coolest Thing of the Day
This is the same perspective the fell beasts had when Gwaihir went nuts on ’em in T.A. 3019.
Storylines
- Here’s a somewhat triumphalist piece by Mike Vogel about how great it was to sign Brooks Orpik, who will earn $5.5M against the salary cap at age 38, and how numbers don’t help you make predictions.
- And here’s a thesis on using numbers to make predictions in hockey.
- Puck Daddy’s Dmitry Chesnokov spoke with Alex Ovechkin about, well, a bunch of stuff but mostly how good the 2009 team was.
- Chesnokov also spoke to Evgeny Kuznetsov about how the team isn’t as defense-first as he feared, and how the Calder should go a teenager.
- David Krejci (19 goals and 50 assists last season) is on LTIR. Patrice Bergeon took a scary hit the other night but is expected to play.
- I have made a wager with @PortfolioKey that Green-Schmidt will not be the worst defensive pair (measured in shot attempt differential) tonight. The stakes: one beer.
- I chose a Marchand dive pic for the top of this post, but our own captain was guilty of embellishment on Thursday.
- No comment on this:
From Bruins game notes, the +93 & +90 respectively for Patrice Bergeron & Brad Marchand over last 3 seasons are tops in the NHL #BruinsTalk
— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) October 10, 2014
What You’re Missing on TV
Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game. Hopefully not the Orioles game.
Best comment on the Ovechkin asteroid: “Clearly visible from October to May. Undetectable in June.”
