Tonight at 7 PM, the Capitals will host the New Jersey Devils at Verizon Center. The Devils are undefeated and looking pretty boss, unless you actually look at how they play, and then they’re kinda boring. The game is on CSN-DC, and you don’t need to worry about there being any conflicts with baseball because… well… yeah.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 1-0-2 | 48.48% | 106 | 30.8% | 91.7% |
| New Jersey Devils | 3-0-0 | 41.88% | 119 | 25% | 82.4% |
Projected Lineup
Per Alex Prewitt, looks like Fehr has vacated his spot on the top line to help out the struggling third. That’s an… interesting decision.
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Brouwer
Johansson – Burakovsky – Laich
Chimera – Fehr – Ward
Brown – Kuznetsov – Latta
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Schmidt – Green
Holtby
All Our Baseball Teams Lost, We Need Bub
I love you, Bub.
Storylines
- Did you read the PuckBuddys pregamer? Great insight in there from In Lou We Trust. And yours truly shared a little bit of Caps wisdom over at ILWT as well.
- Holtby on Tuesday: “I didn’t do my job well enough.” Poor kid is going to be haunted by the John Scott goal forever.
- Speaking of, you must read Justin Bourne’s breakdown of the John Scott goal.
- This is Jagr’s 1,477th game. If he gets a hat trick, he’ll become the 6th all-time highest goal scorer. He’ll almost certainly finish the season in 5th place. I hate him; he’s so good.
- Trotz chalks up Brooks Orpik and John Carlson’s bad outing on Tuesday to rotten luck.
- Rob Parker is also a bit peeved about breaking up the top six, which was working pretty well.
- Come argue with us about star players blocking shots. Did you know Alex Ovechkin blocks .07 shots fewer than Sidney Crosby per game?
What You’re Missing on TV
On a very special episode of Gracepoint (FOX, 10 PM), someone named Mark is caught in a lie and subsequently brought in for questioning; someone named Gemma opens up to the detectives (there, apparently, are detectives); and someone named Carver has a chat with someone named Ellie’s husband, who is someone named Tom.
A fun game I like to play while watching that show is Good Actor/Bad Actor, where you try to figure out who the good actor is in each scene and who the bad actor is. Hint: David Tennant is never the bad actor.
It’s that time of year when some kids from your old college wear an awful costume, end up on the internet, and embarrass you.
