Caps at Blues Pregame: Last Night Never Happened

November 15, 2014 3:57 pm

Let’s shake it off. Let’s pretend that game didn’t happen.

The Caps will play their first game… since Tuesday… tonight in St Louis. It’ll be on CSN Plus, which stinks, but at least it’s not against the Devils. Of course, the Blues are an even better team. Gonna need to crash the net. 8 PM.

Team	Record	Possession	PDO	Power Play	Penalty Kill
Washington Capitals	7-6-3	52.84%	99.23	25.9%	80.0%
St. Louis Blues	11-4-1	53.06%	101.78	27.1%	78.6%

Projected Lineup

No morning skate, so as far as I know, top-line Beagle is still a thing, though I doubt it. Here are yesterday’s starting lines, but with Peters in net.

Ovechkin – Backstrom – Beagle
Johansson – Burakovsky – Brouwer
Chimera – Fehr – Ward
Brown – Kuznetsov – Latta

Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Schmidt – Green

Peters

And the foes:

#stlblues lines: Berglund-Backes-Oshie, Steen-Stastny-Lindstrom, Schwartz-Lehtera-Tarasenko, Ott-Lapierre-Reaves.

— Lou Korac (@lkorac10) November 15, 2014

Best Thing on the Internet Today

More lively than the Caps were last night.

Storylines

I guess I’ll link to our story on Holtby’s bad goal, but I’m worried that’ll distract people from the actual problem last night– which was the playing of bad hockey by everyone else in a Caps sweater. You don’t win without scoring regardless.
Trotz on Friday: “It was going to be one mistake, a power-play goal or something, that was going to win that hockey game.” I dunno, I thought playing poorly and letting the Devils dictate the game was the big mistake.
Ovi likes Tarasenko.
Live prostate exam at AHL game. Simultaneously an awesome and awful idea.
And now I’m just gonna embed a bunch of tweets from Muneeb Alam, whom you should follow. They’re all about Brooks Orpik.

https://twitter.com/muneebalamcu/status/533697916842811392

https://twitter.com/muneebalamcu/status/533698050594971648

https://twitter.com/muneebalamcu/status/533698813429432320

https://twitter.com/muneebalamcu/status/533699292100194304

https://twitter.com/muneebalamcu/status/533699462850695168