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Caps at Blue Jackets Pregame: Unreformed Torts

By Peter Hassett

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January 2, 2016 2:30 pm

The Capitals went 19 days and 9 games without losing until the Carolina Hurricanes cracked the code on New Years Eve. On the back half of back-to-back games, with mounting injuries, blah play during 5v5, and a terrible performance by the second line, the Caps were bound to lose that game from the first puck drop.

Now, in a brand new year and with a bit of rest, the Caps are poised to start a new streak, starting with Lumbus, who are tortilly turrible.

Puck drops at 7 PM.

Team Record Possession PDO Power Play Penalty Kill
Washington Capitals 28-7-2 51.4% 102.0 25.2% 86.1%
Columbus Blue Jackets 14-22-0 47.2% 99.0 17.4% 81.2%

Projected Lineup

I remember Pat decrying the Caps’ defensive depth at the beginning of the season, but wow. From Mike Vogel:

Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Burakovsky – Kuznetsov – Williams
Chimera – Johansson – Wilson
Laich – Sill  – Latta

Alzner – Niskanen
Orlov – Schmidt
Ness – Chorney

Holtby

CORRECTION: I had Conner at 4C instead of Sill. My bust.

Torts on Ovi

That’s nice, but Columbus still needs to fire John Tortorella and Jarmo Kekalainen like right now. Like yesterday.

Storylines

  • Let’s use tonight to contemplate Torts being the US’s head coach for the world cup of hockey. MFW:
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This is Awesome

It just needs pew pew sound effects.

There are so many cool people doing neat data visualizations this season. Datarink, Classlicity, Ineffective Math, and ya boy Muneeb are just a few.

Full RMNB Coverage of Caps at Blue Jackets

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