The Washington Capitals are still on the road and will be facing the Philadelphia Flyers tonight at Wells Fargo Center.
Since the Flyers’ streak ended in December, the team has only won nine of 27 games. The Flyers are also three points out of the Eastern Conference’s second wild-card spot, so watch for them to be quite scrappy tonight as they fight to solidify a spot in the playoffs.
The only change up that Capitals fans will need to adjust to is switching Taylor Chorney in for Nate Schmidt. Chorney hasn’t played a game since the All-Star break.
Puck drop is at 8:00 PM on NBC for their rivalry night. What even is “rivalry night” anymore?
| Team | Record | SA% | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Capitals | 39-12-7 | 52.8% | 103.7 | 21.8% | 84.3% |
| Philadelphia Flyers | 28-24-7 | 50.8% | 97.6 | 21.3% | 81.3% |
Projected Lines
Only changes are Chorney for Schmidt and Holtby in net.
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Johansson – Kuznetsov – Williams
Connolly – Eller – Sanford
Winnik – Beagle – Wilson
Alzner – Carlson
Orlov – Niskanen
Orpik – Chorney
Holtby
Line Brawl in KHL Playoffs
Game One of the Gagarin Cup playoffs between CSKA Moscow and Jokerit Helsinki ended Tuesday night with a massive line brawl. The dustup began in the closing seconds of the match, which CSKA won 4-2, when Jokerit’s Masi Marjamaki boarded Andrei Svetlakov while on the forecheck. On the ensuing faceoff with 17 seconds left, all hell broke loose.
Storylines
- Andre Burakovsky talks about that infamous Uber mistake.
- Snapshot number 8 has arrived. Take a look at what news Peter has to give.
- Bill Daly announced that the NHL wants two dedicated weeks off for the bye week next season.
- Where oh WHERE will Brooks Laich end up? Apparently, he would like to be traded or a part of the Maple Leafs this season.
- According to Travis Boyd, Nate Schmidt snores pass it on.
- Did you catch our interview with Fatima Al Ali? Well you should, it was great.
- Season-ticket holders will have to shell out a little bit more money next year for their tickets.
- It’s a shutout for Ilya Samsonov’s final regular season game!
- Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko did a really, REALLY awesome thing the other day for one of his fans.
- Guess who is a frontrunner for the Vezina trophy again? It’s Braden Holtby, of course.
- Filip Forsberg is still killin’ it on the Preds after he scored another hat trick. This time it was in front of Billy Ray Cyrus. Everything is fine.
- Capitals players and fans had an awesome time at the ‘Wish Upon a Par’ event at Topgolf.
- Travis Boyd got his very first promotion to the Washington Capitals.
Miracle on Ice
“Do you believe in miracles? YES!”
WATCH: Final seconds of @TeamUSA‘s #MiracleOnIce win 37 years ago today. – @Olympics pic.twitter.com/BbICKP5TvB — Good Morning America (@GMA) February 22, 2017
It would be crazy to not give a shout out to one of the most important things that happened today. No, not National Margarita Day, but the 37th anniversary of ‘Miracle on Ice’.
Beauty and the Beast Sneak Peek
The Beauty and the Beast movie is almost here and everyone is going bananas for it (myself included). The movie released a sneak peek of the beginning song and you should give it a look because it is SO great. The only thing I would like to go ahead and get out of the way, for the record, is that I will absolutely refuse to sit by and pretend Emma Watson is an amazing singer. Also I am getting very strong “Ella Enchanted” vibes from this, don’t @ me.
What If
The hopeless, illogical romantic in me hopes Brooks Laich ends up in Washington somehow.
— Steve Dangle Glynn (@Steve_Dangle) February 22, 2017
Full Coverage of Caps at Flyers
Headline photo: Nick Wass
