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Welcome back, fans of actual hockey games. The grotesque obscenity of All-Star weekend is now behind us, so we can focus on — well, I sorta forget.
Jog my memory. The team we follow is the Capitals, yeah?. The other guys are the Blue Jackets, and I can’t remember if they’re good or not. Let’s say yes since the Oilers were awful and somehow won anyway.
Tonight the Capitals (or ‘Tals as they’re called among youths) will perform a hockey match at the Blue Jackets’ home base field. The puck will be tipped at 7 PM on the CSN channel with Joe Bonaducci and his collection of interesting hats.
Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
Washington Capitals | 24-13-9 | 52.5% | 100.2 | 24.4% | 79.5% |
Columbus Blue Jackets | 20-22-3 | 46.1% | 98.3 | 24.3% | 79.5% |
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflection, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come—
That means no changes to the lines. Holtby in net. According to Prewitt:
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Burakovsky
Johansson – Kuznetsov – Brouwer
Laich– Fehr– Ward
Chimera – Beagle – Wilson
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Hillen – Green
Holtby
I found John Hodgman’s spiel on political correctness today enlightening. It begins with this:
No one asked (being the definition of Twitter) but here are my thoughts about the @jonathanchait piece in @NYMag. About to @HeerJeet it so..
— John Hodgman (@hodgman) January 27, 2015
Dammit, we’re gonna miss two episodes of Parks and Recreation at 8 PM and 8:30. DVR cityyyyy.
Full RMNB Coverage of Caps at Blue Jackets
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