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    Caps vs Canucks pregame: take advantage

    By Patrick Holden

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    December 11, 2016 12:46 pm

    The Canucks come to town for a game the Caps need to take advantage of. For starters, the Canucks just aren’t a very good team. Furthermore, they played last night in Florida and are in the midst of a five game road trip that has seen them away from home since Tuesday. When the schedule does you favors like this, you need to take advantage. If the Caps don’t take two points this evening, it will be a missed opportunity.

    Puck drop is at 5:00 pm on CSN.

    Team Record SA% PDO Power Play Penalty Kill
    Vancouver Canucks 12-14-2  47.8%  97.7 14.6% 85.3%
    Washington Capitals 16-7-3  53.4%  102.0 16.7% 82.4%

    Projected Lines

    Matt Niskanen might return to the lineup this evening but we won’t know until closer to game time. Barry Trotz will speak to reporters at 3.

    Johansson – Backstrom – Oshie
    Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Williams
    Burakovsky – Eller – Vrana
    Winnik – Beagle – Wilson

    Alzner – Carlson
    Orpik – Orlov
    Schmidt – Chorney

    Holtby

    What is Vancouver doing?

    Just going on a hunch here, but maybe the Canucks shouldn’t have the Sedin’s spend the majority of their 5-on-5 minutes with Brandon Sutter. After all, the twins possession numbers drop around 10 percentage points when they play with Sutter.

    Storylines

    • Patrice Bergeron texted Matt Niskanen about the hit that injured the Caps defender. No word on whether the text included a “u up?”
    • Zach Sanford scored another goal in Hershey.
    • Tom Wilson thinks Jakub Vrana is tough.
    • Daniel Winnik is feeling fine and scoring goals.
    • The Caps PP has started to find its groove, which is good because special teams have been the main problem.

    Mascots schooling kids

    Apparently this is a thing? A funny, beautiful thing

    Here's a compilation of mascots destroying kids in football pic.twitter.com/CTCoa9cFiN

    — Romeo 🎮👑 (@PapiChuIo) December 10, 2016

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    Headline photo: Bill Wippert

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