Chag Sameach, homies. We’ve got one more game before everyone shuts down for holiday silliness. Problem is– this game’s against the big bad New York Rangers. The Caps and the Rangers are pretty much in the same spot in the standings, so this game will factor big when it comes to sorting the Metro teams.
Join us, won’t you, on CSN for a 7 PM bout at Madison Square Garden. Bring the figgy pudding and adult egg nog. We won’t go until we get some. We won’t go until we get some. We won’t go until we get some. So score us some goals.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 17-10-6 | 50.9% | 99.9 | 25.3% | 77.8% |
| New York Rangers | 17-10-4 | 49.8% | 101.7 | 15.8% | 82.3% |
Projected Lineup, I Guess
Back to backs and no morning skate, so I’ve got no idea. We hear that Burakovsky and Schmidt will be back, but who knows. We don’t know who the goalie will be. This is just a bunch of names really.
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson
Johansson – Kuznetsov – Brouwer
Laich– Fehr – Ward
Chimera – Latta – Beagle
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Schmidt – Green
Holtby
Three Great Christmas Songs
In my opinion.
Though “White Christmas” is probably the best pop song ever written.
Storylines
- With a 104.8, the Capitals have the highest PDO in the league this month. Umm. Uh oh.
- Two Metro teams close it the standings, tonight’s game is huge.
- Will Trotz play Braden Holtby in two games back-to-back? Informed conventional wisdom says no, and we haven’t seen Peters at all this month, but… just look at that save again.
- Tom Wilson got benched last night. Trotz uses ice time like a weapon. What happens tonight?
- Great pregame interview with a fella from Blueshirt Banter thanks to our pals at PuckBuddys.
- And a great interview between the Puck Buddys and Bill Bell of CSN.
- Really, the PuckBuddys are just great.
- Ian and I have been discussing the lack of buzz for the Winter Classic and the lack of acclaim/penetration for the Epix show. Greg Wyshynski chatted with Ross Greenburg about that second topic directly. Japers Rink had a behind-the-scenes look at the series as well.
- A curiosity on the Nate Schmidt Schmidtuation from BLY:
Schmidt loses waiver exemption after he plays in 9 more games. Prolonging that flexibility wouldn't be a reason to sit him, would it?
— BrooksLaichyear (@brookslaichyear) December 21, 2014
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