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    Islanders at Caps pregame: homecoming

    By Chris Gordon

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    October 15, 2016 2:42 pm

    After losing to the Penguins 3-2 in a shootout on Thursday, the Capitals will host the New York Islanders on Saturday night in the team’s home opener. Before the game the Caps are going to drive to Verizon Center in their various AMG Mercedes, get out, walk around a little bit, get in a Lexus, and be driven around the block and delivered back to Verizon Center. It’s like the Holton-Arms parking lot but with less entitlement.

    The Isles made some additions in the offseason, signing Andrew Locklan Ladd and noted skate-thrower Jason Chimera. I was going to include some things Chimera said recently here, but he talks too fast to be intelligible. New York lost its opening night matchup to the Rangers 5-3.

    Here’s a giant sample size.

    Team Record Possession PDO Power Play Penalty Kill
    New York Islanders 0-1-0 49.6% 99.5 0% (T-16th) 80% (18th)
    Washington Capitals 0-0-1 56.1% 102.8 0% (T-16th) 50% (22nd)

    Projected Lineup

    Washington’s lines and pairs played well together on Thursday. They’ll stay the same.

    Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Oshie
    Burakovsky-Backstrom-Johansson
    Sanford-Eller-Williams
    Winnik-Beagle-Wilson

    Alzner-Niskanen
    Orlov-Carlson
    Orpik-Schmidt

    Holtby

    Storylines

    • The all-Swedish second line was great against Pittsburgh. You can thank Nicklas Backstrom.
    • Rachel has painstakingly developed a new Unleash the Fury sign.
    • The Caps have also new banners. The Eastern Conference regular season championship would be assigned to the history books if any actually remembered when that happened.
    • This is second straight game P.K. Subban has been mentioned in the storylines. Why? Because he’s fun. We love fun. He scored in his debut with the Predators.
    • Blue Jackets fan Dancing Kevin aka fat guy people laugh at to make themselves feel better has lost 160 pounds, but his name is still Kevin and he’s still dancing.
    • America has too much cheese.
    • On October 15, also known as today, in 1989 Wanye Gretzky passed Gordie Howe for the NHL’s all-time points lead.
    • Former Capitals forward Wojtek Wolski is in intensive care after fracturing two vertebrae, injuring his spinal cord, and getting concussed in KHL game on Thursday.

    This Guy

    Chimera was asked if he has any secret info on Caps: "Oh yeah. I know where to score on Holtby. It's gonna be easy."

    — Arthur Staple (@StapeAthletic) October 15, 2016

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