February 18, 2017 6:02 pm

Caps hockey is back. The boys started the back end of the regular season off in Detroit for the last Capitals-Wings match up in Joe Louis Arena. The bye week rust was on display and I’m pretty sure the entire team was playing sunburned.

The first was not a great period for the team in white. No real sustained offensive zone pressure and a misfire on the man advantage. Danish forward Frans Nielsen put the Red Wings up 1-0 on Detroit’s lone power play of the period. McGriddles fans everywhere wept.

Tomas Tatar capitalized on a John Carlson turnover to put Detroit up 2-0, but the red hot, potentially pierced Zach Sanford brought the Caps within one before the end of forty minutes.

Petr Mrazek then tried to steal the show, making numerous ten-bellers before Daniel Winnik batted home a rebound to tie the game at 2 and send it to overtime.

Henrik Zetterberg with the shootout winner.

Red Wings beat Caps 3-2.

The Red Wings power play is terrible this year, but they seemingly forget this fact when they’re playing the Capitals.
Braden Holtby is now 0-5 in shootouts this year and the Red Wings are now 7-0 in the skills competition. That’s not fun.
With this Capitals loss and Montreal’s loss, teams are now 3-13 the game back from their bye week.
CSN showed us images of Esa Tikkanen doing the unforgettable in remembrance of Joe Louis Arena. I am now also blind.

One thing that I won’t miss about the good ole Joe? Having play blocked at both ends of the ice by fans standing up in front of the camera.
I think Petr Mrazek might be a Jedi. Lots of pucks around his crease mysteriously bouncing wide of pay-dirt. What say you?
Zach Sanford has 4 goals in his last 3 professional hockey games. Are we sure he doesn’t play for the Calgary Flames, because he’s on fire. Ba-dum tss.
Anyone seen Brooks Orpik completely lay out Steve Ott in that fight? That was Goldberg on Lesnar type domination.
The Capitals power play was not very good. Had a couple chances late to tie the game up and could not convert.
I have been incredibly sick for over a week now, so if this recap was even weirder than normal, I’m blaming it on that.