The Capitals are in an odd situation right now. They’re a good team, but they haven’t been playing like it in the last 10 days. They’re a playoff team, but they’ve been losing to gutter teams. They’re reportedly buyers at the trade deadline, but most of the attractive players have already been snatched up. They’ve got a lot of talent on the roster, but they’re not necessarily using it well.
With just two games left before the trade deadline, I’m starting to wonder if we’ll see any big changes at all. Maybe the team we’ll see against the Hurricanes tonight will be the same one we see in May.
Game’s at 7 on CSN. It’ll be my first time hearing Joe B call a game since before he got sick.
Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
Washington Capitals | 33-19-10 | 51.6% | 100.4 | 23.4% | 80.9% |
Carolina Hurricanes | 22-30-7 | 51.2% | 97.0 | 18.5% | 88.0% |
Yeesh. From Alex Prewitt:
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Johansson
Chimera– Kuznetsov – Brouwer
Laich – Fehr – Ward
Burakovsy – Beagle – Wilson
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Hillen– Green
Holtby
Dead at age 83. He lived long and he prospered.
I never really wanted him anyway.
Rush lines in Carolina: 8-19-90, 25-92-20, 21-16-42, 65-83-43. Volpatti and Latta the slated scratches, from the looks of it.
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) February 27, 2015
PP units right now in practice: 74-19-8-20-25 and 90-92-42-52-2. So…that's new.
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) February 27, 2015
One more thing about PP1 Chimera: Trotz said he wants more net-front presence. Could be matchup related. Canes' PK leaves backdoor open.
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) February 27, 2015
Green agreed that the PP needed changing, "but it's unfortunate that it's myself."
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) February 27, 2015
Sigh.
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