The hottest team in the league will play tonight, and it ain’t the Washington Capitals. The Anaheim Ducks have won 11 games in a row. They’re ranked higher than the Caps in 5v5 possession and penalty killing. (It’s a virtual tie on the power play.) Plus they’ve got Bruce Boudreau behind the bench. After a miserable start to the season, the Ducks are now exactly where smart people knew they’d end up, and maybe even a little higher than that.
The Ducks right now are my pick out of the West to make the finals*. Tonight the Caps will try to beat them on their own turf.
It’s a late game, 10 PM on CSN. I’ll be staying up with you, cracking jokes.
Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
Washington Capitals | 48-13-4 | 51.6% | 101.7 | 23.8% (3rd) | 84.5% (4th) |
Anaheim Ducks | 37-19-8 | 53.2 % | 98.6 | 23.8% (2nd) | 86.2% (3rd) |
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Burakovsky – Kuznetsov – Williams
Chimera – Johansson – Wilson
Winnik – Richards – Beagle
Alzner – Niskanen
Orpik – Orlov
Weber – Schmidt
Holtby
On today's #CapsTalk Bruce Boudreau with @WaltonCaps @pfholden from @russianmachine @VogsCaps player interviews and your phone calls!
— Caps Radio 24/7 (@CapitalsRadio) March 7, 2016
RMNB’s Pat Holden will be on Caps Talk radio today at 4 PM. Also on the show: Bench Boss Bruce Boudreau himself. Please tune in.
Playoff chances, West and East. pic.twitter.com/ou8d6BQFXd
— Micah Blake McCurdy (@IneffectiveMath) March 6, 2016
rolling 25 gp sample of xGF% in all situations: pic.twitter.com/De6akDeAhO
— Stephen Burtch (@SteveBurtch) March 7, 2016
And again – it is insane how far off their xGF% TOR is… WSH and TOR are polar opposites this year.
— Stephen Burtch (@SteveBurtch) March 7, 2016
Justin Williams shooting 12.5%, career 9.5%. Chimera shooting 12.8%, career 9.0%.
— Stephen Burtch (@SteveBurtch) March 7, 2016
Backstrom 16.2%, career 11.7%. Johansson 14.6%, career 13.1%… That's a lot of guys posting high sh% numbers at once.
— Stephen Burtch (@SteveBurtch) March 7, 2016
CGP Grey has a video on the disturbing problem at the heart of Star Trek. The Tom Riker episode (“Second Chances“, S06E24) is the best proof that we’re not moving people so much as creating new people who think they’re the old people, who are now dead.
Pull quote: “Your bed might be a suicide machine.”
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