Hi. We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving. We also hope you are ready for some early evening hockey and are stocked full of leftovers to gorge on during the aforementioned early evening hockey.
Old Southeast Division rivals Tampa Bay visit the nation’s capital today. A hockey game will be played. It will have action, whistles, shooting, passing, hitting, and scoring. The Lightning have gotten off to a bit of an uneven start this season but have won three in a row.
The game starts at 5 PM and will be brought to you by the fine folks at CSN, who we all should be thankful for.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 15-5-1 | 53.5% | 100.9 | 21.9% | 83.9% |
| Tampa Bay Lightning | 11-9-3 | 51.8% | 101.3 | 18.3% | 81.3% |
Projected Lineup
No morning skate today, so we’ll assume no lineup changes until informed otherwise.
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Johansson – Kuznetsov – Williams
Chimera – Beagle – Burakovsky
Laich – Latta – Wilson
Schmidt – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Orlov – Chorney
Holtby
Punk Rock! Bass Solo!
Storylines
- The best hockey podcast around, the Hockey PDOcast, devoted a chunk of time to the Caps in their most recent episode.
- The Caps got some love from the national media
- Breaking down a bad decision by Andre Burakovsky
- Some potential gift ideas for any Caps fans you may know.
- Relive the Caps win over the Jets in GIF form.
- Relive the Caps win over the Jets in picture form.
- And…
@russianmachine side-stuffing or cranberries. Desert -pumpkin pie! With a generous amount of whipped cream
— Nate Schmidt (@nateschmidt29) November 26, 2015
Post Thanksgiving Thanks
Having a day set aside to be grateful and appreciative is a win for all of us. But wouldn’t it be cool if we could all find a way to be an ounce more appreciate throughout the year. Let’s get some brainstorming going in the comments, dear readers. What are ways we can extend the Thanksgiving thankfulness throughput the year?
