The Caps are riding the PDO train all the way to the trade deadline. With a 5-0 walloping of the Los Angeles Kings on Super Bowl Sunday, the Caps record yet another win on home ice and bring home another shutout for backup goalie Philipp Grubauer.
The game began, as all games do, with a goal by a bottom-six forward. This time it was Lars Eller up front to end Peter Budaj’s 147-minute shutout streak. Marcus Johansson added his first goal since January 19 before the first period was up. The second period saw Brett Connolly reach double-digit goals and TJ Oshie commit bottlecide.
In the third, Justin Williams summoned Enrique Iglesias with a quick goal off a faceoff.
Caps beat Kings 5-0! Shutout for Philipp Grubauer!
Just another five-goal blowout for Washington. Nothing is forbidden anymore.
- The Caps have been getting the first goal a lot lately, and they’ve been doing it with their depth forwards. I guess that’s less surprising when yours is the #bestthirdlineinhockey.
- Alex Ovechkin celebrated his 1000th point. Brett Connolly scored his 10th goal. TJ Oshie scored his 20th goal. Let’s all eat 30 buffalo wings tonight.
- This hit below by Jake Muzzin on Tom Wilson was not called for boarding. I guess because a human was in his way. Maybe it should be humaning. I don’t know, I didn’t write the rulebook, and I’m still pretty groggy from #RMNBX yesterday.
Here's Muzzin's hit on Tom Wilson. pic.twitter.com/3l5W1HG7Wo
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) February 5, 2017
- With an early lead that didn’t quit, the Caps didn’t have a lot of incentive to tilt the ice, soooo… they didn’t. The Kings dominated the shot attempt game during 5-on-5.
- And that meant a lot of action for Caps goalie Philipp Grubauer, who lost his last two games despite solid performances in each. Grubauer was excellent on Sunday, earning his 3rd shutout of the season. And it was a high-difficult shutout at that with 38 shots faced.
- After 40 minutes of getting thrashed by golf balls in a tube sock, Peter Budaj (4 goals on 15 shots) left the net so Jeff Zatkoff could take his one lump. As if he already hadn’t taken his lumps in middle school with a name like Jeff Zatkoff.
- We met Pierre McGuire yesterday, and we were very nice to him. But did he say anything about that on the broadcast? No. I had this whole routine worked out where we’d praise him all game, but I guess that’s out the window now. Exasperated sigh.
Horn in a Box #CapsKings @TheHornGuy pic.twitter.com/J9Tb6t68K7
— Christopher Peli 🥁 (@christopherpeli) February 5, 2017
The Horn Guy in a suite of the day
And that’s how we’ll close down the weekend. Once again, the Caps racked up a bunch of goals and earned a win. And despite back-to-back games, the Caps won each in convincing fashion.
Let’s go Falcons. I guess. I don’t know anything about football. Both of the QBs have really WASP-y names and the NFL is kinda gross. Let’s go fried food? I can get behind that.
