At 7 PM tonight the Caps will lace up at Prudential Center in hopes of extending their point streak. Well, hopefully they’ll have laced up sometime before 7 PM or else warm-ups would have been a mess, but you get my point. The game starts at 7.
Okay, the broadcast starts at 7. The game will start at like 7:07 or something, but everyone usually agrees that saying it starts at 7 is sufficient. Unless there’s some kind of pregame ceremony, but why are you even bringing that up, you’re making this way harder than it needs to be.
Caps at Devils at 7:07 ish PM, and with any luck they’ll be wearing ice skates by then.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 15-10-6 | 51.0% | 99.5 | 26.1% | 76.3% |
| New Jersey Devils | 12-16-6 | 49.7% | 100.1 | 22.2% | 77.6% |
Projected Lineup
Per your boy Alex Prewitt, no changes to forward lines.
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson
Johansson – Kuznetsov – Brouwer
Laich– Fehr – Ward
Chimera – Latta – Beagle
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Schmidt – Green
Holtby
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Storylines
- No morning skate today.
- Braden Holtby is expected to start tonight. He’s on pace to play all but 11 games this season, which is a freaking ton. Only fifteen goalies have played that much since the ’04-’05 lockout.
- Brooks Laich is playing his best hockey in years. Here’s an interview with him talking about having “confidence” in his “body,” which, yeah, I would too.
- Andre Burakovsky was pointless in his appearance in Hershey last night. He’s not supposed to remain there long.
- Mike Green was a “ghost” on Thursday. More on that below.
- Ross Greenburg on EP:TRTTNHLWC (or whatever) was on EITM last week.
- Here’s some evidence that Semyon Varlamov‘s brittlegroin is on the mend in Colorado, if you care, which I don’t. No timetable for his return.
- Good news from Dan Steinberg, I guess, I dunno.
All those crawls were worth it!!!!! pic.twitter.com/8Y6BXB7AKM
— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 20, 2014
Facebook Comments About Mike Green
From our article on Thursday night.
- “Finally Green does something good!” – Kevin
- “Wait til he gets injured again”- John
- “consistently bad you mean” – Jason, in response to Casey, who knows what’s up
- “It’s about damn time he stepped up again. Starting to sound like semin haha” – Jesse
- “He was , so why can he turn this on and off, oh wait we are getting close to contract time right?” -Tom
Quick reminder: No Caps player has been nearly as good as Mike Green at generating shots and limiting shots against over the last three years.
