Maybe it’s this head cold, but it seems like everything everywhere sucks right now. Hockey in general, the Caps’ PDO specifically, the weather, treatment of people who aren’t white guys, Detroit’s power grid, Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom. It all just sorta sucks.
Tonight at 7 PM the Capitals have the opportunity to start making things a little better with a home game against the Vancouver Canucks. It’s on CSN-DC and Joe B promised to wear something nice for you.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 10-9-4 | 52.3% | 98.1 | 28.8% | 77.5% |
| Vancouver Canucks | 16-7-1 | 51.7% | 99.0 | 18.4% | 84.2% |
Projected Lineup
A little shuffling in the bottom six. By way of Alex Prewitt:
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson
Johansson – Kuznetsov – Brouwer
Laich– Fehr – Ward
Chimera– Burakovsky – Beagle
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Schmidt – Hillen
Holtby
These are Blow-Dried Cows
You are welcome.
Storylines
- Braden Holtby, who starts tonight, is good at hockey.
- Unless you use adjusted save percentage, which I’m still learning about.
- Mike Green in a hospital. It’s not what you think!
- The Caps would like to win a game. Wait, scratch that. They would like to win several games.
- On quick-response goals, which I suspect are just noise… for now.
- Despite getting good linemates, lots of ice, and a better system, the Capitals are still dedicated to ruining Tom Wilson.
- The default sort on War-on-ice.com is now 5v5. You are welcome.
- Without comment from the team or league, Slava Voynov is skating with the Kings again. Between that, Steve Lepore, Adrian Dater, and the Ray Rice stuff from this morning. it almost seems like sports might possibly have some minor problem with women. Here’s a link to last night’s Jewelcast.
- The St Louis Blues have signed Martin Brodeur to a one-year contract. He’ll get paid $10k for every win, which is wacky. The essential take on the topic belongs to lifelong Devils fan Greg Wyshynski.
- Here’s your boy JP on a topic broached by Adam Oates over the weekend:
Apparently the "danger" of puck possession is you get hit more. 17,154 hits so far this yr. How many caused injury? I'll take possession…
— japersrink.bsky.social (@JapersRink) December 2, 2014
Somewhat related: 10,337 blocked shots by teams that didn't have the puck prior to blocking the shot. How many of those caused injury?
— japersrink.bsky.social (@JapersRink) December 2, 2014
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Finally
This week has sucked. You look like you could use a Mike Green smolder right now.
